Assistant Technician
Resume:
Thane Harpole
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Hayes VA 23072 abpci2@r.postjobfree.com
Education:
University of Massachusetts Boston
-M.A. program in History/Historical Archaeology; completed coursework, cumulative
GPA: 3.91; anticipated completion August 2010
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Double Major in History, December 1996
GPA: 3.53 overall; 3.90 in Anthropology
Current Positions:
-Co-Director of the Fairfield Foundation, November 2000 to the present; direct
operations and research for this non-profit organization conducting a long-term archaeological
and historical study of the Burwell family plantation in Gloucester County. Responsibilities
include directing excavations and laboratory work, conducting historical research, writing reports
and newsletters, fundraising, and coordinating volunteer and membership programs.
-Co-Owner of DATA Investigations, LLC, 2002 to present; direct and run multiple
archaeological projects, including surveys, national register nominations, and large-scale
excavations focused on the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck of Virginia.
-Founding member of the Werowocomoco Research Group (WRG), 2002 to present;
involved in guiding the research and excavation of Powhatan s capital village in Gloucester
County.
Past Employment:
- Field Technician for the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR),
Summer 1994 and 1995
Archival assistant at WMCAR, Summer and Fall, 1994
Lab Assistant at Jamestown Rediscovery (APVA), Fall 1996
- George Washington s Mount Vernon, 1997 to 1999, and Summer 2000
Field Archaeologist and Laboratory Assistant: assisted in all aspects of field
and laboratory work at many different sites, trained and supervised numerous
volunteers, interpreted sites to thousands of visitors, and conducted
archaeological walking tours of the property.
- Field technician for archaeological investigations at the Bowie-Sevier House in Georgetown,
Washington D.C., Spring 1999
- Field technician for the Center for Cultural and Environmental History (CCEH) at the
University of Massachusetts Boston, conducting limited survey and test excavations,
including the Somerville Powderhouse Survey, Houghton Garden in Newton, and the
Old Manse in Concord, 2000/2001
-Field Crew for the JRIA, Stonehouse survey project, 2001
-Field Crew for the James River Institute for Archaeology (JRIA), Greenmount Phase III (Site
44JC1012), September 2003
-Prepared a detailed bibliography of Bacon s Rebellion for a National Park Service project
entitled Virginia Indians at Jamestown: The First Century, 2004.
-Assistant Field Director, Werowocomoco Field School, June 2003-2007; involved in guiding
research and excavation strategies, and directing and instructing undergraduate and
graduate students in archaeological field methods.
Publications:
Brown, David and Thane Harpole
1999 Archaeological Salvage Excavations at Site 44GL320: A Middle Woodland/Early
Colonial Site in Gloucester County, Virginia, Technical Reports Series No. 5, Virginia
Department of Historic Resources (VDHR), Richmond
2002 The Thruston Family and the Tombstone Mystery, The Family Tree Searcher,
Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia (GGSV), 6:1:34-38, June 2002
2004 Warner Hall: Story of a Great Plantation, DATA Investigations, Hayes, Virginia
2007 The Changing Landscape of Fairfield Plantation, The Quarterly Bulletin of the
Archeological Society of Virginia 63:3 (164-171)
Gallivan, Martin D., Thane Harpole, David A. Brown, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, and E.
Randolph Turner, III
2006 The Werowocomoco (44GL32) Research Project: Background and 2003 Archaeological
Field Season Results, College of William and Mary Department of Anthropology,
Archaeological Report Series, No. 1; Virginia Department of Historic Resources,
Research Report Series No. 17
Harpole, Thane and David Brown
1998 Archaeological Salvage Excavations at Site 44GL320: A Middle Woodland/Early
Colonial Site in Gloucester County, Virginia, The Quarterly Bulletin of the
Archeological Society of Virginia 53:3 (105-113)
2002 The Mystery of Gloucester Town: Discovering a Forgotten Virginia Town, The Family
Tree Searcher, GGSV, 6:2:31-36, December 2002
2002-10Fairfield Foundation Quarterly Newsletter, Fairfield Foundation, White Marsh, Virginia
2007 The Architecture of the Fairfield Manor House: The Convergence of Wealth, Style and
Practicality, The Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 63:3
(136- 148)
2008 Uncovering Fairfield Plantation: Revealing a Forgotten Landscape, The Family Tree
Searcher, GGSV, 12:1:26-31, June 2008
Select Archaeological Reports
Brown, David and Thane Harpole
1995 A Phase I Archaeological Assessment of the Peebles Property in Gloucester County, on
file at the DHR (Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, VA)
1996 A Phase I Archaeological Assessment of the Fairfield Tract in Gloucester County, on
file at the DHR
1997 The Gloucester Frontier: An Archaeological Investigation of a Mid-Seventeenth-Century
Domestic Farmstead (44GL407) Gloucester County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
1998 An Archaeological Assessment Survey of a Five-Acre Parcel for the Rosewell Visitor
Center in Gloucester County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
2002 Archaeology at Fairfield Plantation, Home of the Burwells, report on file at the
Fairfield Foundation, White Marsh, Virginia
2004a Archaeological Excavations of the Rosewell Vaulted Cellar and Collapsed Drain, Site
44GL12, Gloucester County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
2004b the best church I have seen in the country : Archaeological Excavations at Abingdon
Parish Church, Gloucester County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
2007a Buckland Historic District, National Register of Historic Places Boundary Increase and
Nomination revision; a late 18th and 19th-century mercantile town and its environs in
Prince William County, VA
2007b An Archaeological Survey of the T.C. Walker Property, Site 44GL445,
Gloucester County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
Brown, David A., Thane H. Harpole and Robert E. Haas
2007 An Archaeological Investigation of the Quest End Property, Site 44GL103, Gloucester
County, Virginia, on file at the DHR.
Harpole, Thane
2003 Summary Report of the Archaeological Debris Removal at Tyndall s Point Park in
Gloucester County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
Harpole, Thane and Benjamin Bradshaw
2007 Tudor Place: Drain Mitigation and Test Excavation at Site 51NW134, Washington
D.C, on file at Tudor Place Historic House and Gardens, Georgetown, Washington D.C.
Harpole, Thane and David Brown
2002 An Archaeological Management Plan for the Rosewell Foundation, Gloucester County,
Virginia, on file at the Rosewell Foundation, Gloucester, Virginia
2004 A Phase I Survey for the Proposed Seawater Research Laboratory and Wastewater
Treatment Storage Building, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester County,
Virginia, on file at the DHR
2005 A Phase II Archaeological Survey of Rosewell, Site 44GL12: Interim report, on file at
the Rosewell Foundation, Gloucester, Virginia
2006 An Archaeological Assessment of Walter Reed s Birthplace, Site 44GL427, Gloucester
County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
2009 "Menokin Extraction 2008/9 Summary: Documentation and Extraction of Architectural
Material from the Menokin House Ruins (079-0011 and 44RD35) Richmond County,
Virginia," on file at the DHR.
Harpole, Thane, David Brown, Mark Kostro and Sarah Heinsman
2007 In the shadow of greatness: An Investigation of the 1670 Church at Historic Christ
Church, Site 44LA55, Lancaster County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
Harpole, Thane, David Brown and Meredith Mahoney
2008 "An Archaeological Survey of Menokin, Site 44RD35, Richmond County, Virginia,"
on file at the DHR.
Harpole, Thane, David Brown and Anthony Smith
2003 The Search for Powhatan s Seat of Power: A Survey and Salvage Excavation of a
Portion of the Ripley Property, Site 44GL32, Gloucester County, Virginia, on file at the
DHR
Harpole, Thane, Robert Haas and David Brown
2003 The Brick Kilns at Christ Church: A Phase II Investigation of a Portion of Site 44LA55,
Historic Christ Church, Lancaster County, Virginia, on file at the DHR
Harpole, Thane, Jennifer Ogborne and David Brown
2009 "Excavations Inside An Outbuilding at Goshen, Site 44GL466, Gloucester County,
Virginia," on file at the DHR
Select Presentations:
Early Settlement in Gloucester County: A Phase II Evaluation of a SeventeenthCentury
Domestic Farmstead, 1996 ASV Annual Meeting, with David Brown
- Fairfield Reconstructed: 2003 Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation, 2003 Jamestown
Conference annual meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, with David Brown and Robert Haas
- Close Quarters: Exploring Early Slave Dwellings at Fairfield, 2004 Jamestown Conference
annual meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, with David Brown
- Fairfield Archaeology 2005, 2005 Jamestown Conference annual meeting, Williamsburg,
Virginia, with David Brown
- GIS and the Study of Settlement Continuity among Rural Postbellum African-American
Communities, 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting in York,
England, with David Brown and Nathaniel Miller
- Defining Change within Plantation Landscapes, 2006 Society for American Archaeology
Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with David Brown.
- The Changing Landscape of Slavery at Fairfield Plantation, 2007 Society for Historical
Archaeology annual meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, with David Brown
- Re-defining Space, Time, and the Boundaries of Historical Archaeology at Werowocomoco,
2007 Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, with
David Brown
- Archaeology and Early Virginia Landscapes, Course for Rappahannock Institute for Lifelong
Learning (RILL), Rappahannock Community College, Spring 2010
-From 2000 to the present I have delivered presentations on Fairfield, Rosewell, Warner Hall,
Tudor Place and Werowocomoco to various groups including Christopher Wren
Association classes at the College of William and Mary, local chapters of the APVA and
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), the Lancaster County Community Library
lecture series, Gloucester Historical Society, Yorktown Celebration of the American
Indian, Tudor Place, Carrot Tree Literary Teas in Yorktown, and many additional groups.
Awards and Honors:
William and Mary Undergraduate Research Grants in Anthropology, 1995 and 1996
Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society, inducted Fall 1995
Nathan Altshuler Scholarship for Undergraduate Field Research in Anthropology, Summer 1996
- Walter Reed Memorial Scholarship in Archaeology, Gloucester County Historical Society, 2005
Professional and Organizational Memberships:
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Archaeological Conservancy
Vernacular Architecture Forum
Council of Virginia Archaeologists
Archeological Society of Virginia (Middle Peninsula Chapter President, 2008-2012)
Gloucester Historical Society
Rosewell Foundation
References: (further information upon request)
Dr. Martin Gallivan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
Dr. Stephen Mrozowski
Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Dr. Donald Linebaugh
Associate Professor and Director, Historic Preservation Program
Departments of Anthropology and The National Center for Smart Growth
University of Maryland
College Park MD 20742
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