Mark Paul Leone (June 26, 1940 - December 11, 2024) was an American archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
This project focused on the historical archaeology of Annapolis and Maryland's Eastern Shore and features the use of critical theory.
He directed the University of Maryland Field School in Urban Historical Archaeology for several decades starting in 1981.
Site reports with catalogs on nearly 40 excavations can be found on the University of Maryland’s Digital Archive, known as DRUM.
A physical component of the collection is housed in the National Trust room of Hornbake Library on the University of Maryland campus.
Some of the most significant sites excavated by the project include: Virtual tours of archaeological sites in Annapolis and exhibits from Annapolis and Easton can be found at the following links: People of Wye House contains censuses done by the Lloyd family of people they enslaved.
A list of newspaper articles by date and name of reporter from the Annapolis Evening Capital can be found here.
Refereed Journal Articles 1977 The New Mormon Temple in Washington, D. C. In Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things.
2006 LiDAR for Archaeological Landscape Analysis: A Case Study of Two Eighteenth Century Maryland Plantation Sites.
Chapters in Books 1984 Interpreting Ideology in Historical Archaeology: Using the Rules of Perspective in the William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland.
Reprinted in Readings in Historical Archaeology, edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr. Alta Mira Press/Sage Publications, 1996.
In Prophet, Pariah, and Pioneer: Walter W. Taylor and Dissension in American Archaeology, edited by Maca, Allen, Reyman, Jonathon, and Folan, William, pp.