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Historical archaeology of the Chesapeake

Title
Historical archaeology of the Chesapeake / edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little.
Publication
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1994], ©1994.

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  • Shackel, Paul A.
  • Little, Barbara J.
Description
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
  • The Chesapeake Bay area's economy, ecology, and history have made it an extraordinarily rich area for archaeological study for nearly a century. Ranging across many methods of historical archaeology, this volume represents current work on the Chesapeake's western shore dealing with early European settlements, plantations and landscapes, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life.
  • Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake presents a history of past excavations, as well as a sampling of recent historical archaeological discoveries.
  • The essays include an examination of seventeenth-century decorated tobacco pipes as evidence of possible African-made material culture, a detailed analysis of the decline of Alexandria's sugar industry, and a comparison of household objects from a working-class neighborhood with those of the nearby Hooker's Division, once the red-light district of Washington, D.C.
  • Using an array of theoretical orientations, the contributors analyze relationships among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans, as well as among economic and occupational groups. Their findings illuminate changing social and political situations, including stratification within cities, between urban and rural areas, and between the Old and New Worlds.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Archaeological Perspectives: An Overview of the Chesapeake Region / Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little -- Pt. 1. Early European Settlement. Ch. 2. "Whereby We Shall Enjoy Their Cultivated Places" / Stephen R. Potter and Gregory A. Waselkov. Ch. 3. Decorated Clay Tobacco Pipes from the Chesapeake: An African Connection / Matthew C. Emerson. Ch. 4. Solid Statements: Architecture, Manufacturing, and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Vienna / Ann B. Markwell. Ch. 5. The Country's House Site: An Archaeological Study of a Seventeenth-Century Domestic Landscape / Henry M. Miller. Ch. 6. Town Plans and Everyday Material Culture: An Archaeology of Social Relations in Colonial Maryland's Capital Cities / Paul A. Shackel -- Pt. 2. Plantation and Landscape Studies. Ch. 7. Mount Vernon: Transformation of an Eighteenth-Century Plantation System / Dennis J. Pogue. Ch. 8. The Archaeology of Plantation Slavery in Piedmont Virginia: Context and Process / Douglas W. Sanford.
  • Ch. 9. "As Is the Gardener, So Is the Garden": The Archaeology of Landscape as Myth / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid -- Pt. 3. Eighteenth-Century Life. Ch. 10. A Comparative Analysis of the New England and Chesapeake Herding Systems / Joanne Bowen. Ch. 11. "Fashionable Sugar Dishes, Latest Fashion Ware": The Creamware Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake / Ann Smart Martin. Ch. 12. "She Was . . . an Example to Her Sex": Possibilities for a Feminist Historical Archaeology / Barbara J. Little. Ch. 13. Antietam Furnace: A Frontier Ironworks in the Great Valley of Maryland / Susan E. Winter. Ch. 14. The Archaeology of Ideology: Archaeological Work in Annapolis since 1981 / Mark P. Leone. Ch. 15. Current Archaeological Perspectives on the Growth and Development of Williamsburg / Marley R. Brown III and Patricia Samford -- Pt. 4. Nineteenth-Century Life. Ch. 16. How Sweet It Was: Alexandria's Sugar Trade and Refining Business / Keith L. Barr, Pamela J. Cressey and Barbara H. Magid.
  • Ch. 17. Neighborhoods and Household Types in Nineteenth-Century Washington, D.C.: Fannie Hill and Mary McNamara in Hooker's Division / Charles D. Cheek and Donna J. Seifert. Ch. 18. Rural Landscape in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chesapeake / Julia A. King.
ISBN
1560982578
LCCN
93029078
OCLC
  • 28547528
  • ocm28547528
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries