Matthew Reeves
Biographic Data
| ID | 5532525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Reeves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Reeves |
| SIGNATURE | REEVES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montpelier Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4083-4758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Community as Client
The Clientage Model, as defined by Dr. Michael Blakey, is one in which archaeologists give descendants connected with a heritage site primacy in defining the research and interpretive agenda directed toward their ancestral material record. We have descendants guide our approach to the archaeological record at the site of the Montpelier plantation in Virginia, once owned by President James Madison. Descendants of enslaved Americans have raised que…
Reading Between the Intersecting Lines
Exploring and Interpreting the History of Slavery at James Madison’s Montpelier
Archaeology’s importance to understanding and exploring difficult histories should be considered an essential tool in the public history toolbox. This paper will explore how the Department of Archaeology at The Montpelier Foundation in Orange, Virginia, interprets the lives of over 350 individuals enslaved by James Madison, the nation’s fourth president. To do so, we use the Rubric of best practices, standards established by the National Summit o…
African American Culinary History and the Genesis of American Cuisine
American Southern foodways emerged in large part within the kitchens of slave plantations, where enslaved Black cooks incorporated African, Native American, and European practices and foods to create distinctly American food traditions. We use animal remains excavated from James Madison’s Montpelier to illuminate early American cuisines in the Virginia piedmont. Black foodways at Montpelier were not monolithic. Pork and beef were the dominant mea…
Whitewashing an African American Landscape
Orange County, Virginia, has maintained a rural agricultural identity since the eighteenth century. During this time the labor, political, economic, and agricultural systems have gone through dramatic changes. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the end of slavery and rise of industrial agriculture played significant roles in the shaping of the physical and social landscape. Ultimately, this resulted in dramatic declines in the population …
A Nabataean and Roman shrine with civic and military gods at Humayma, Jordan
The lifecycle of a Nabataean and Roman community shrine at Humayma, Jordan reflects the evolving values of the town's inhabitants from the first to the third century CE . This paper reviews the evidence for the shrine's appearance and significance over this period, as well as the nature of the cult practised there. Beginning its existence as a Nabataean shrine, whose design incorporated the rising sun and the town's primary peak, the building was…
Identifying and Analyzing Agricultural Landscapes Using Metal-Detector Survey and Nail-Batch Analysis
Dining with the Madisons
Catherine L. Thompson. Patient Expectations
That patients are largely missing from many medical histories is an old saw of the medical historical trade. Of course, most medical historians making this observation are pointing out that patients are present passively in medical history, appearing as disease incubators, receivers of treatment, and objects of medical gazes. Catherine L. Thompson’s new work aims to challenge these narrow conventions by “repositioning patients as active shapers r…
Humayma's notched peak
The most distinctive landscape feature at the southern Jordanian site of Humayma is Jebel Qalkha's highest peak, which is split at the top by a wide notch. The Nabataean town of Hawara (Roman Hauarra/Hauara) was built on the plain immediately east of this peak. This paper draws on the site's foundation myth, petroglyphs, betyls and religious and civic structures to illustrate the significance of this notched peak for the site's ancient population…
Sleeping with the “Enemy”
In 2012, the Archaeology Department at James Madison’s Montpelier began an experimental program with Minelab Americas to encourage metal detectorists to become more involved in the scientific process of archaeological research. Specifically, the program is designed to be a week-long experience in which archaeologists and metal detectorists work together to identify and preserve archaeological sites at the 2,700-acre Montpelier property. In the pr…
A petroglyph of a religious ceremony at Humayma
Over the past three decades Humayma (S Jordan) has been the subject of much research, focusing on the structures and artefacts left behind by its Neolithic, Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic occupants, but the petroglyphs carved into the sandstone hills and ridges on the W side of the site have been mentioned only in passing. In 2012 and 2014 it was decided to carry out a survey of them. Of the more than 150 petroglyphs documented, m…
Huts and History
Reinterpreting Manassas
Sleeping with the “Enemy”
In 2012, the Archaeology Department at James Madison’s Montpelier began an experimental program with Minelab Americas to encourage metal detectorists to become more involved in the scientific process of archaeological research. Specifically, the program is designed to be a week-long experience in which archaeologists and metal detectorists work together to identify and preserve archaeological sites at the 2,700-acre Montpelier property. In the pr…
Reinterpreting Manassas
Exploring and Interpreting the History of Slavery at James Madison’s Montpelier
Archaeology’s importance to understanding and exploring difficult histories should be considered an essential tool in the public history toolbox. This paper will explore how the Department of Archaeology at The Montpelier Foundation in Orange, Virginia, interprets the lives of over 350 individuals enslaved by James Madison, the nation’s fourth president. To do so, we use the Rubric of best practices, standards established by the National Summit o…
Identifying and Analyzing Agricultural Landscapes Using Metal-Detector Survey and Nail-Batch Analysis
Dining with the Madisons
Humayma's notched peak
The most distinctive landscape feature at the southern Jordanian site of Humayma is Jebel Qalkha's highest peak, which is split at the top by a wide notch. The Nabataean town of Hawara (Roman Hauarra/Hauara) was built on the plain immediately east of this peak. This paper draws on the site's foundation myth, petroglyphs, betyls and religious and civic structures to illustrate the significance of this notched peak for the site's ancient population…
Reinterpreting Manassas
Huts and History
Sleeping with the “Enemy”
In 2012, the Archaeology Department at James Madison’s Montpelier began an experimental program with Minelab Americas to encourage metal detectorists to become more involved in the scientific process of archaeological research. Specifically, the program is designed to be a week-long experience in which archaeologists and metal detectorists work together to identify and preserve archaeological sites at the 2,700-acre Montpelier property. In the pr…
A petroglyph of a religious ceremony at Humayma
Over the past three decades Humayma (S Jordan) has been the subject of much research, focusing on the structures and artefacts left behind by its Neolithic, Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic occupants, but the petroglyphs carved into the sandstone hills and ridges on the W side of the site have been mentioned only in passing. In 2012 and 2014 it was decided to carry out a survey of them. Of the more than 150 petroglyphs documented, m…
Humayma's notched peak
The most distinctive landscape feature at the southern Jordanian site of Humayma is Jebel Qalkha's highest peak, which is split at the top by a wide notch. The Nabataean town of Hawara (Roman Hauarra/Hauara) was built on the plain immediately east of this peak. This paper draws on the site's foundation myth, petroglyphs, betyls and religious and civic structures to illustrate the significance of this notched peak for the site's ancient population…
Catherine L. Thompson. Patient Expectations
That patients are largely missing from many medical histories is an old saw of the medical historical trade. Of course, most medical historians making this observation are pointing out that patients are present passively in medical history, appearing as disease incubators, receivers of treatment, and objects of medical gazes. Catherine L. Thompson’s new work aims to challenge these narrow conventions by “repositioning patients as active shapers r…
Dining with the Madisons
Whitewashing an African American Landscape
Orange County, Virginia, has maintained a rural agricultural identity since the eighteenth century. During this time the labor, political, economic, and agricultural systems have gone through dramatic changes. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the end of slavery and rise of industrial agriculture played significant roles in the shaping of the physical and social landscape. Ultimately, this resulted in dramatic declines in the population …
A Nabataean and Roman shrine with civic and military gods at Humayma, Jordan
The lifecycle of a Nabataean and Roman community shrine at Humayma, Jordan reflects the evolving values of the town's inhabitants from the first to the third century CE . This paper reviews the evidence for the shrine's appearance and significance over this period, as well as the nature of the cult practised there. Beginning its existence as a Nabataean shrine, whose design incorporated the rising sun and the town's primary peak, the building was…
Identifying and Analyzing Agricultural Landscapes Using Metal-Detector Survey and Nail-Batch Analysis
African American Culinary History and the Genesis of American Cuisine
American Southern foodways emerged in large part within the kitchens of slave plantations, where enslaved Black cooks incorporated African, Native American, and European practices and foods to create distinctly American food traditions. We use animal remains excavated from James Madison’s Montpelier to illuminate early American cuisines in the Virginia piedmont. Black foodways at Montpelier were not monolithic. Pork and beef were the dominant mea…
Reading Between the Intersecting Lines
Exploring and Interpreting the History of Slavery at James Madison’s Montpelier
Archaeology’s importance to understanding and exploring difficult histories should be considered an essential tool in the public history toolbox. This paper will explore how the Department of Archaeology at The Montpelier Foundation in Orange, Virginia, interprets the lives of over 350 individuals enslaved by James Madison, the nation’s fourth president. To do so, we use the Rubric of best practices, standards established by the National Summit o…
Community as Client
The Clientage Model, as defined by Dr. Michael Blakey, is one in which archaeologists give descendants connected with a heritage site primacy in defining the research and interpretive agenda directed toward their ancestral material record. We have descendants guide our approach to the archaeological record at the site of the Montpelier plantation in Virginia, once owned by President James Madison. Descendants of enslaved Americans have raised que…
History (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Law (5 works)