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    Final Report on the 2022 Rice University Excavations at Varner-Hogg Plantation (41BO133)
    (Rice University, 2022) Morgan, Molly; Jalbert, Catherine; Black, Reece; Katongo, Maggie; Blundell, Mac; Ess, Nick; Festa, Natalie; Janson, Bri; Joy, Grace; Landry, Katelyn; Orta, Phoenix; Pickett, Kenzie; Rothko, Isabel; Zaragoza, Jesús Vega; Pearce, Vincent; McBeth, Cheryl; McWeeney, Grace; Anthropology
    The Rice University excavations at Varner-Hogg Plantation, a key component of the ANTH 362 Field Techniques class, took place over three weekends in the spring of 2022. Laboratory analysis and public history studies continued at the Rice University Archaeological Learning Laboratory through May. The class of 12 Rice students worked on a team also comprised of Dr. Molly Morgan (Rice archaeologist), Dr. Catherine Jalbert and Reece Black (Texas Historical Commission archaeologists), and Grace McWeeney and Cheryl McBeth (community interns). Following a previous season of work in 2020, our research focus continues to be on the 19th century experiences of captive laborers through the excavation of contexts thought to have been residences of enslaved people, or perhaps in later contexts to the laborers brought to work at the site through the convict leasing system. Other important aspects of our project include community-based archaeology, museums studies, and public dissemination of research results in cultural heritage contexts.
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    Final Report on the 2023 Rice University Excavations at Varner-Hogg Plantation (41BO133)
    (Rice University, 2023) Morgan, Molly; Bourgeois, Nicholas; Black, Reece; Katongo, Maggie; Gee, Margo; Munson, Nikole Tamez; Autrey, Justan; MacDonald, Jess; Anthropology
    The Rice University Advanced Field Techniques in Archaeology course took place in the spring of 2023, with excavations at Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site in West Columbia, Texas. This project has focused on the area of the site located in what is called the picnic loop, across Varner Creek from the main house at Varner-Hogg Plantation. This is the area of the site where the quarters of the enslaved have been documented. In 2020 and 2022, under permit Texas Antiquities Permit #9237, excavations identified the rubble remains of brick foundations of Structure 3, with domestic material culture supporting the interpretation of the structure as a residential cabin. The 19th century diagnostic artifacts situate the occupation in the middle to late 19th century when slavery and captive leasing took place at Patton Place (what the plantation was called at the time) and throughout the region.