Archaeology in Annapolis
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Archaeology in Annapolis was a city-wide excavation of Maryland’s capital city whose purpose was to recover and teach with the below ground remains of materials from the 1680’s to today. Archaeology in Annapolis is a part of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Maryland, College Park and has been, and in some cases remains, partners with Historic Annapolis Foundation, the Banneker-Douglass Museum, Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, and the City of Annapolis. The project was begun in 1981 and continues to work in the City and to excavate on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The project works to provide understanding of the many peoples who have made up the City in the past and present. Under the direction of Mark P. Leone, the organization has conducted over forty excavations in the historic area of Maryland’s capitol city as well as in Queen Anne and Talbot Counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, including Wye House Plantation. This collection includes archaeological site reports, technical reports, and dissertations produced by the project between 1985 and the present. Where possible, separate files for artifact catalogs have been provided.
A physical component of the collection is housed in the National Trust room of Hornbake Library on the University of Maryland campus. It contains copies of site reports, field notes, drawings, slides, contact sheets, photographs, historic research, oral history transcripts, artifact cataloging sheets, analytical notes, dissertations, scholarly and public papers, presentations, journal articles, administrative planning notes, correspondence, visitor evaluations, press releases, brochures, exhibition planning notes and grant proposals.
The Sites in this Collection Include:
- 18AP01: The William Paca House and Garden (1990 Report and 2004 Report)
- 18AP14: Victualling Warehouse
- 18AP18: Dr. Upton Scott House
- 18AP21: Sign of the Whale (99 Main Street)
- 18AP22: State Circle
- 18AP23: Reynolds Tavern
- 18AP29: Jonas Green House and Print Shop
- 18AP30: Shiplap House
- 18AP37: Retallick-Brewer House
- 18AP38: James Brice House (Reports from Back Area, West Wing Interior Interim Report, and South Yard/ Interior West and East Wing Excavations)
- 18AP39: Newman Street Playground
- 18AP42: State House Inn (on State Circle)
- 18AP43: St. Anne’s Churchyard
- 18AP44: 193 Main Street (1986 Preliminary Report and 1994 Final Report)
- 18AP45: Charles Carroll House/ St. Mary’s Site (1987 Survey Report, 1987-1990 Report, and 1991 Report)
- 18AP46: College Creek Survey
- 18AP47: Sands House
- 18AP49: Gassaway-Feldmeyer House
- 18AP50: Bordley- Randall House
- 18AP51: 22-26 West Street
- 18AP52-Gott's Court
- 18AP53: John Brice II House (1990 Report and 2013 Report)
- 18AP55: 10 Francis Street
- 18AP61: #40 & #42 State Circle/ Public Well
- 18AP63: Courthouse Site (1993 Report , 1995 Report and 2001 Report)
- 18AP64: Maynard-Burgess House (1992 Conference Report and 1995 Final Report)
- 18AP67-18AP69-USNA (18AP67: Ellipse-USNA, 18AP68: Porter Road-USNA, and 18AP69: Hells Point- USNA)
- 18AP74: Slayton House
- 18AP93: 119 Chester Avenue, Eastport (2003 Report and 2015 Report)
- 18AP94: 110 Chesapeake Avenue, Eastport (2003 Report and 2015 Report)
- 18AP100: 102 Chesapeake Avenue, Eastport
- 18AP101: 201 Chesapeake Avenue, Eastport
- 18AP102: 512 Second Street, Eastport
- 18AP103: 127 Chester Avenue, Eastport
- 18AP105: 520 Third Street, Eastport
- 18AP106: 108 Eastern Avenue, Eastport
- 18AP107: Adams-Kilty House
- 18AP109: 26 Market Street
- 18AP110: 12 & 40 Fleet Street
- 18AP111: Fleet Street
- 18AP112: Cornhill Street
- 18AP114: 30 Cornhill Street
- 18AP115: 41 Cornhill Street
- 18AP116: James Holliday House
- 18AP119: 49 Pinkney Street
- 18AP120: Schwar’s Row
- 18TA314: Wye House (Faunal Remains, Hothouse Structure, Greenhouse Interior, Wye GreenhouseThe Long Green, and The "Captain's House")
- 18TA439: Talbot County Women’s Club
- 18TA440: Home of the Family of the Buffalo Soldier
- 18QU977: Wye Hall (2003 Report and 2008 Report)
The Dissertations in this Collection Include:
Benjamin Skolnik (2019): "The Real Distance Was Great Enough": Remapping A Multivalent Plantation Landscape Using Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS)
Elizabeth Pruitt (2015): Reordering the Landscape: Science, Nature, and Spirituality at Wye House
Kathryn Deeley (2015): Double “Double Consciousness”: An Archaeology of African American Class and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland, 1850-1930
Amanda Tang (2014): 'Fried Chicken Belongs to All of Us': The Zooarchaeology of Enslaved Foodways on the Long Green, Wye House (18TA314), Talbot County, Maryland
Jocelyn Knauf (2013): Brought Up Carefully: The Archaeology of Women, Race Relations, Domesticity, and Modernization in Annapolis, Maryland, 1865-1930