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During the earliest decades of English colonization of the Chesapeake, the Potomac River Valley was a politically complex borderland between the colonies of Virginia and Maryland and Native American tribal groups. In this enlightening talk, Dr. Barbara Heath explores the significant ways in which life on the borderland shaped the development of the Northern Neck of Virginia.
Dr. Barbara Heath is Professor and Head of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, where she has worked since 2006. She specializes in historical archaeology—archaeology of the recent past. For more than 40 years, she has worked on archaeological sites throughout Virginia, including a 20-year career as an archaeologist at historic houses and museums such as Colonial Williamsburg, Monticello, and Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.