| PA-51190-05 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum | Documenting the Archaeological Collections of the State of Maryland | 7/1/2005 - 9/30/2007 | $150,481.00 | Julia | A. | King | | | | Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum | St. Leonard | MD | 20685-2433 | USA | 2005 | Archaeology | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 150481 | 0 | 150481 | 0 | Preserving and cataloging 185,000 original archaeological and laboratory records (paper-based reports and photographic images) associated with 34 major historic and prehistoric archaeological sites in Maryland dating from 9,000 BCE to CE 1600. |
| PH-20944-01 | Preservation and Access: National Heritage Preservation Projects | Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum | Documenting the Archaeological Collections of the State of Maryland | 7/1/2001 - 4/30/2004 | $136,237.00 | Julia | A. | King | | | | Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum | St. Leonard | MD | 20685-2433 | USA | 2001 | Archaeology | National Heritage Preservation Projects | Preservation and Access | 136237 | 0 | 136202 | 0 | The creation of a computerized database of 162,360 catalog records representing nearly one million objects from 31 major prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Maryland. |
| RJ-255678-17 | Research Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Research) | St. Mary's College of Maryland | Conference: American History through the Archaeology of the Potomac River Valley | 5/1/2017 - 5/31/2017 | $4,000.00 | Julia | A. | King | | | | St. Mary's College of Maryland | St. Mary's City | MD | 20686-3001 | USA | 2016 | | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Research) | Research Programs | 4000 | 0 | 3912.88 | 0 | A conference and edited volume of essays on American history through the lens of archaeology of the Potomac River Valley.
This grant funds a small conference focused on developing an
edited book manuscript describing research completed as part of the NEH-funded
project, “The Lower Potomac River Valley at Contact, 1500-1720” (RZ-51442-12).
This conference will be organized by Dr. Julie King and her co-collaborator,
Barbara J. Heath (University of Tennessee), and will be held Sunday, May 14
through Wednesday, May 17, 2017. The book manuscript proposed as an outcome of
this project would consist of 14-15 chapters by different authors, all of whom
participated in the original sponsored NEH project in one capacity or another.
The purpose of this concluding conference would be to review, critique, and
better integrate individual essays for a planned peer-reviewed book. The goal
is to have a final manuscript ready for submission to an academic press on or
about September 1, 2017. |
| RZ-20896-02 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum | A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture | 12/1/2002 - 12/31/2005 | $80,000.00 | Julia | A. | King | | | | Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum | St. Leonard | MD | 20685-2433 | USA | 2002 | Archaeology | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 80000 | 0 | 80000 | 0 | To support a comparative analysis of English-, Indian-, and African-used material culture recovered from eighteen Chesapeake Bay sites--mainly towns and tobacco plantations--occupied between 1620-1750. |
| RZ-255645-17 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | St. Mary's College of Maryland | Indigenous Borderlands of the Chesapeake: The Lower Rappahannock Valley Landscape, 200-1850 CE | 10/1/2017 - 12/31/2020 | $240,000.00 | Julia | A. | King | | | | St. Mary's College of Maryland | St. Mary's City | MD | 20686-3001 | USA | 2017 | Archaeology | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 240000 | 0 | 240000 | 0 | Excavation and artifact
analysis at eleven Native American sites along the lower Rappahannock river in
Virginia, leading to the development of interpretive print and online
publications and GIS datasets. (26 months)
The project seeks NEH support to develop a baseline history of an understudied but key watershed in the Chesapeake region of North America. The Rappahannock River valley, located between the better known Potomac and James rivers, was, circa 1608, densely populated with well-organized polities, presupposing a dynamic but still unknown history. Using collections- and fieldwork-based methodologies along with GIS technologies, Saint Mary's College of Maryland and its collaborators will explore this borderland river drainage, addressing questions of migration and mobility, political development, the forging of group identities, and responses to colonialism. Our approach is rooted in landscape, the digital humanities, and a perspective that emphasizes the long durée. |
| RZ-51442-12 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | St. Mary's College of Maryland | Colonial Encounters: The Lower Potomac River at Contact, 1500-1720 AD | 1/1/2013 - 1/31/2016 | $190,000.00 | Julia | A. | King | | | | St. Mary's College of Maryland | St. Mary's City | MD | 20686-3001 | USA | 2012 | Archaeology | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 190000 | 0 | 190000 | 0 | The creation of a collections-based comparative study and online database consisting of material culture recovered from 33 Potomac River archaeological sites occupied between 1500-1720 AD. (24 months)
St. Mary's College of Maryland seeks NEH support for a collections-based archaeological study of the lower Potomac River Valley between c. 1500 and 1720 AD. By taking material culture as our point of departure and incorporating the rich ethnographic evidence found in documents into our analysis, we plan to explore the forms colonial encounter took in this area of the Atlantic World and how what transpired here contributed to the profound renegotiation of identity that continues apace at the beginning of the 21st century. |