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The Zooarchaeology of the Storehouse and the Dry Well at Monticello

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Diana C. Crader
Diana C. Crader*
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Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06457
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Abstract

Recent excavations at Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia plantation, Monticello, have uncovered the remains of several structures and features including a storehouse and a dry well. Zooarchaeological analysis of the associated fauna indicates that differences in species composition, body part representation, and associated modifications exist between these two sites. These differences are undoubtedly related to social status and wealth and can be used to support the notion that the storehouse was probably also used as a slave dwelling.

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American Antiquity , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 542 - 558
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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