Unearthing St. Mary's City (eBook)

Fifty Years of Archaeology at Maryland's First Capital

Henry M. Miller, Travis G. Parno (Herausgeber)

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2021
366 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-5776-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America. Founded in 1634, the city had disappeared by 1750, yet the archaeology documented in Unearthing St. Mary's City reveals its untold history.Contributors to this volume review new research approaches and methods developed recently at Historic St. Mary s City. They study the archaeology, architecture, and people of the lively seventeenth-century colonial hub. They also explore the landscapes of agriculture, enslavement, and remembrance that developed at the site in the centuries after the capital s relocation to Annapolis. In their chapters, contributors delve into subjects such as soil analysis, ceramics, diet, forts, burials, plantations, state houses, tenants, tobacco pipes, gaming, and the education of women.The lands along the Chesapeake Bay have witnessed a vast range of human experiences, and this book highlights the lives of peoples of European, Native American, and African origins who lived on this site over a span of four centuries. Their stories illuminate the multilayered nature of this important place and the broader Chesapeake region and serve as a testament to the potential and power of historical archaeology.Contributors: Terry Peterkin Brock | Karin S. Bruwelheide | Charles H. Fithian | Silas D. Hurry | Stephen S. Israel | Robert Keeler | George L. Miller | Henry M. Miller | Ruth M. Mitchell | Alexander Sandy H. Morrison II | Douglas W. Owsley | Travis G. Parno | Timothy B. Riordan | Michelle Sivilich | Garry Wheeler Stone | Wesley R. Willoughby | Donald L. Winter

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 84 b/w illus., 10 tables, notes, bibliography, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 17th century • 17th-century archaeology • Annapolis • Archaeological Methods • archaeological sites • Architectural historians • Architecture • block foundations • British colonization • British colony • British Settlement • Ceramics • Chesapeake Bay Region • Clapboard carpentry • Colonial America • colonial architecture • colonial Maryland • commemoration • Elite Burial • english colony • European settlement • Frontier Adaptation • Historic St. Mary’s City Museum • maryland history • Maryland Indians • native american life • ordinaries • Plantations • Plowzone distributions • Postcolonial • Slavery • Soil Analysis • St. Mary’s City • surface midden • tobacco • Tobacco house • Tobacco pipes
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-5776-0 / 0813057760
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-5776-7 / 9780813057767