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Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program at UVA

The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program combines the faculty and resources of several departments.

Our undergraduate majors undertake a program of study that combines prehistoric, historic, and classical archaeology, while graduate students pursue more focused research through the departments of Anthropology or Art History. The discipline of Archaeology is concerned with the recovery, analysis, and interpretation of the material remains of past cultures and societies. The topics of study at UVa

can vary widely, ranging from issues of human origins and cultural evolution to the study of Classical Greece and Rome; from the structure of ancestral Pueblo societies to colonialism in Virginia; and from the study of the ancient Near East to the development of Swahili culture on the East African coast. The Archaeology faculty is composed of a group of core faculty, all archaeologists from the Anthropology and Art History departments. In addition, faculty from Architectural History, History, Religious Studies, Classics, and Environmental Sciences offer many courses of direct relevance. Faculty sponsored field research is currently being conducted in Italy, Greece,Turkey, East Africa, the Southwestern United States, Virginia and the Caribbean.

02/08/2025

Archy Intros continue with field tech Ellie Alvey!

Ellie graduated from the University of Virginia in 2024 with high distinction in Archaeology and a double major in Anthropology. She worked as an undergraduate with the Caesarea Coastal Archaeological Project and as a research intern with the Inhabiting Byzantine Athens digital archaeological project. She went on to work in the field at the site of Aghia Marina Pyrghos, Greece. Ellie has also done fieldwork here at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, working as a weekly volunteer last fall! We're glad Ellie has joined us on the field crew!

12/24/2023

Happy Holidays from the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program! We hope that your breaks have been relaxing and rejuvenating, and we can't wait to see you all back on Grounds in the new year. ☃️🌟

12/05/2023

Happy LDOC everyone!

To celebrate the end to another great fall semester, be sure to stop by Fayerweather 203 and pick up a donut or warm up with some hot coffee and cider. 🍂🍩

11/26/2023

Flashback to our last Brown Bag with Corey Sattes! Thank you, Corey, for your presentation and thank you to everyone who attended.☺️

11/09/2023

Tomorrow (11/10) join us for our last Brown Bag of the semester! Corey Sattes, Curator of Archaeological Collections at Preserving Monticello / Thomas Jefferson's Monticello will be presenting her talk on “Colonoware Ceramics in the South Carolina Lowcountry”.

Light refreshments will be served. See you there! 😁🙌

11/06/2023

Wow! It was a full house at the Annual Archaeology Event last week! A big thank you to all those who attended, and a virtual round of applause for our speakers and presenters. 🤩👏

As mentioned at the event, students, faculty, archaeologists, and all others related: please do not hesitate to reach out to put your work on display, advertise events or programs, collaborate on a post, or for anything else! We’re always excited to learn more about and share what’s going on in the university and archaeology worlds.

10/24/2023

Thank you to everyone who represented the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program at the Majors Fair 2-weeks ago!

And, it was wonderful to meet those interested in archaeology. We’re looking forward to getting to know you all better and hopefully welcoming you as our next class of archaeology students. 🙂

10/19/2023

Tomorrow (10/20), the Anthropology UVa will present a talk by Dr. Olanrewaju Lasisi on “An Indigenous Hermeneutic Approach to the Archaeology of Potsherd Pavements in Yoruba Culture”.

Dr. Lasisi is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Race, Place, and Equity at the UVA School of Architecture. In his research, he specializes in the study of the intersection of power, landscape, skyscape, and indigenous hermeneutics in African archaeology.

This talk is co-sponsored by the The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies and, yours truly, the UVA Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program. A reception will follow Dr. Lasisi’s talk.

Hope to see you there! 🤩

10/18/2023

Thank you to everyone who made it out to our first Brown Bag of the semester, and an especially big thanks to our speaker, Dr. Sean Tennant!

Stay tuned for details on another Brown Bag event happening this upcoming Friday. 🕵️‍♀️

10/11/2023

This Friday is the day… for our first Brown Bag of the semester! Please join us in welcoming Sean Tennant, Archaeology Data Manager from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, for his talk on Cultural Resource Management.

Dr. Tennant is a recent PhD graduate in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology from UVA. His interests include digital humanities/scholarship, Roman provincial archaeology, analytical archaeology, network analysis, data visualization, and GIS.

Light refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you there! 🤠⛏️

Address

Fayerweather Hall And Brooks Hall, University Of
Charlottesville, VA
22903

Telephone

+14349246123

Website

https://linktr.ee/uvaarchaeology

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