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[PAST EVENT] Anthropology Brown Bag: "Focused: A Century of Virginia Indian Resistance"

February 17, 2021
12pm
Location
Zoom
Pamunkey Family (1919), Frank Speck photograph collection, N12730, NMAI Archive Center
Pamunkey Family (1919), Frank Speck photograph collection, N12730, NMAI Archive Center

An overview of the new special exhibition at the Jamestown Settlement Museum by Luke J. Pecoraro, Ph.D. Luke is a historical archaeologist currently employed as the Director of Curatorial Services for the Jamestown–Yorktown Foundation. He has worked in cultural resource management archaeology in the mid-Atlantic, the Chesapeake and New England on a variety of prehistoric and historic sites, and for several years as a staff archaeologist on the Jamestown Rediscovery project and was the former Director of Archaeology at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. 

Luke is also a research archaeologist for the First Colony Foundation, searching for the sixteenth century “Lost Colony” on Roanoke Island, and a team member of the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat (SLAM) project in the British West Indies. He holds a bachelor's degree in history (Virginia Commonwealth University) a master's and Ph.D. in archaeology from Boston University. Recent publications include Stewards of Memory: The Past, Present and Future of Historic Preservation at George Washington’s Mount Vernon edited by Carol Cadou, Luke Pecoraro and Thomas Reinhart (UVA Press (2018).  

Please contact Joni Carlson [[w|jdcarlson]] for Zoom link.