Excavations Continue at Rebel's Rest!
The SEI Field School in Archaeology continues excavations at Rebel's Rest during Summer 2016!
The SEI Field School in Archaeology continues excavations at Rebel's Rest during Summer 2016!
On April 7, 2016, Post Baccalaureate Fellow Alex Friedl (Sewanee C'15) presented a poster about Rebel's Rest at the 81st Annual Meeting for the Society of American Archaeology in Orlando, Florida.
We have been successful in cross-mending the majority of a chamber pot from Rebel’s Rest. When the ceramic pieces were initially excavated, we thought they represented heavy tableware, but refitting the pieces revealed another story. Its round shape and wide phalange (or vessel edge) reveal it to be a chamber pot.
Rachel Rodgers (C'17) shares her adventures as she delves into the University Archives to recover information on the histories of the Polk and Fairbanks families at Rebels Rest.
Friday July 31, 9am - 2pm. Tours (approx. 30 minutes long) will be available to the public. All are welcome to come and hear an overview of the Polk and Fairbanks history of the site, updates on the various research projects related to the site, and see the Rebels Rest excavation in progress.
We welcome community volunteers to take part in the excavations and artifact processing at Rebel's Rest.
This year the SEI Archaeological Field School divided their time between working on part of the Pinson site (2000 year old Middle Woodland site) and Rebels Rest (19th century home site of founding fathers of the University).
Jane Millar (C’14) concluded her post-baccalaureate year working with students in Dr. Sherwood's North American Archaeology class to systematically survey the forested slopes behind Rebel's Rest.
My role in the Rebel’s Rest project began as an effort to document its architecture, using methods I learned for a research internship my junior year at Sewanee. However, it quickly evolved into a crash course in what Mr. Hix designated “Logology.”
On April 27, the Rebel’s Rest research team, led by Archaeo-geophysics specialist Stephen Yerka, conducted geophysical survey in the yard area north of the house.
Mary Priestly and Margaret Woods have joined the Rebels Rest Research team to reconstruct the vegetation around the grounds at Rebels Rest. Here is a first glimpse at what they are learning (kindly loaned by the University of the South Herbarium Newsletter).
The logs of Rebel’s Rest have been the subject of an ongoing dendrochronological study by Professor of Forestry Scott Torreano and Patrick Vestal (C’12).
