Delaware archaeology and the revolutionary eighteenth centuryHistorical Archaeology - Tập 35 - Trang 83-104 - 2016
John Bedell
Many theorists see the 18th century as a time of profound change in European America. This paper tests some of these theories with data from 21 different 18th-century archaeological sites in Delaware that have been extensively excavated. The sites date to all parts of the 1680–1830 period, and their occupants span the social range from poor tenants to well-to-do planters. Eighteen of the excavatio...... hiện toàn bộ
Commodity flow and national market access: A case study from interior alaskaHistorical Archaeology - Tập 35 - Trang 73-105 - 2016
William Hampton Adams, Peter M. Bowers, Robin Mills
This study re-examines the Commodity Flow Model presented by Riordan and Adams (1985) in light of additional work done by other archaeologists working in Illinois, Oregon, and South Carolina. The Commodity Flow Model provides a way for historical archaeologists to evaluate the interactions between manufacturer and consumer, by categorizing the consumer’s participation in the national market econom...... hiện toàn bộ
A Biography of Place: Thinking between Text, Practice, and Space at the Mission of St. Joseph, SenegalHistorical Archaeology - Tập 57 Số 3 - Trang 912-931 - 2023
Pacyga, Johanna Alaimo
A “biography of place” is presented as a means for parsing the relationship between missionization and place at the Catholic Mission of Saint Joseph, Ngasobil, Senegal (1863–1930). The traditional biographical approach is a potent mode of thinking through missionary landscapes that allows the gleaning of more information about the materiality of missionization; however, here, an additional underst...... hiện toàn bộ
Preparing Children’s Burials in Postmedieval Finland: Emotions Awakened by Sensory ExperiencesHistorical Archaeology - Tập 56 - Trang 184-198 - 2022
Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Titta Kallio-Seppä, Erika Ruhl
Examination of northern Finnish postmedieval funerary attire and coffins reveals culturally constructed sensory experiences and emotions of the individuals who took care of preparing dead children for burial. Based on historical sources, the attire and coffins for small children were generally made by adolescent godparents, whereas dressing and handling of the dead bodies were left to mature women...... hiện toàn bộ