​The MAC Lab has an active pr​ogram of archaeological and historical research. Much of this effort is focused on the JPPM property, but research is also conducted throughout Maryland. In addition, since 1983 JPPM has served as the Southern Maryland Regional Center of the Maryland Historical Trust, exploring the cultural resources of the region. We have studied sites ranging from prehistoric villages to 17th-century Indian hamlets; from Lord Baltimore’s colonial home to the 19th-century home of a freed slave; and from War of 1812 battlefields to Civil War hospitals. And our research would obviously be incomplete if we didn’t examine the vast collections of the MAC Lab to better understand Maryland’s historical material culture.

Fellowships​

Click here for information on our Gloria S. King Research Fellowship in Archaeology.

Visiting Researchers

The MAC Lab welcomes scholars interested in using our artifact collections or Library for research. For more information about this, click here or contact the Curator of State Collections.

Research Papers

• River Cofield, Sara - Why Keep a Crooked Sixpence? Religion and Magic at a Jesuit Plantation in St. Inigoes, Maryland
• Rivers Cofield, Sara - A Preliminary Study of 17th- and 18th-Century Leather Ornaments from Maryland
• Rivers Cofield, Sara - 17th & Early 18th-Century Architecture along the Patuxent River, MD
• Grulich, Anne Dowling - An Enigmatic  Monarch: The Biography of a Headless, Mold-made, White Pipe Clay King Recovered in 17th Century MD
• Grulich, Anne Dowling - Putting Charles Ball on the Map in Calvert County, Maryland
  
• McCarthy, John P. - Oxon Hill Manor - The Archaeology and History of "A World They Made Together"
• Smolek, Michael A.- "Soyle Light, Well-Watered and On the River:” Settlement Patterning of Maryland’s Frontier Plantations
• Cooper, Kelly M.- Patuxent Encounters: Scenes from a Late Woodland Village on the Chesapeake Bay​