This is a site report for the archaeology of Rhode Island Hall. The primary 'fieldwork' was carried out during the Spring semester 2008, and its aims were threefold. First, to collect all materials relevant to the history of Rhode Island Hall. Second, to document the final semester of relations with the building before its radical transformation into the new Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Third, to deploy archaeological practices in an altogether different field of production: by turning them onto the research institute itself.

The Site Report

• material culture
• site-specifics
• people
• ethnographies of the building
• Final Report for Spring 2008
• Fall 2008 and Spring 2009- The Transformation of Rhode Island Hall

Archive

• Encyclopedia Brunoniana entry for RI Hall- a short history
• Historical documents
  • archival photography
  • archival documents
  • newspaper articles
  • engravings/prints
  • architectural plans- the physical modifications to RI Hall
  • architects
  • RI Hall in the Geology Archives
• Archaeological documentation
  • notebook- spring 2008
  • photolog- spring 2008
  • video
  • Archaeology Day- 21st May 2008
  • notebook- fall 2008
  • December 2008- documentation of the well by Kaitlin Deslatte

Memories of RI Hall in 2009

• What do people remember?

• Rhode Island Hall: Architecture and Memory

This project was originally undertaken as an independent study by Elise Nuding under the direction of Christopher Witmore of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in Spring 2008, and has continued from there.