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Sustaining The Shell Middens: A Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Of Shell Midden Sites Within The Nansemond River Tributary, Mary Lawrence Young
Sustaining The Shell Middens: A Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Of Shell Midden Sites Within The Nansemond River Tributary, Mary Lawrence Young
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Throughout history, coastlines have commonly drawn human settlements. However, modern environmental processes (i.e., shoreline erosion, sea-level rise, land subsistence, inundation) threaten to destroy much of our remaining global coastal heritage. To prevent the further loss of archaeological contexts, this study seeks to develop a coastal vulnerability index through geospatial analysis to assess the vulnerability of 35 precontact shell midden sites along the Nansemond River in Suffolk, Virginia. The Nansemond middens offer a long-term history of how coastal inhabitants interacted with their surrounding landscape, with occupation of the area ranging from the Early Archaic period through Contact. This research considers various …
Social Memory, Persistent Place, And Depositional Practice At The Hand Site (44sn22) In Southeastern Virginia, Taylor Blair Triplett
Social Memory, Persistent Place, And Depositional Practice At The Hand Site (44sn22) In Southeastern Virginia, Taylor Blair Triplett
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The Hand site is a complex Native American village site located on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia. Intensive excavations in the 1960s identified over 600 archaeological features, including hearths, pits, structural remains, and a complex of human and canine burials, long assumed to date to the Protohistoric period. While previous researchers emphasized the site’s ties to the colonial actors, a reexamination of the collection instead suggests the site was a geographic locus for Indigenous peoples for over a thousand years. A close attention to chronology as well as space speaks to a deep history of emplacement, whereby social memory …
Buried Beneath The River City: Investigating An Archaeological Landscape And Its Community Value In Richmond, Virginia, Ellen Luisa Chapman
Buried Beneath The River City: Investigating An Archaeological Landscape And Its Community Value In Richmond, Virginia, Ellen Luisa Chapman
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Richmond, Virginia, located along the fall line of the James River, was an important political boundary during prehistory; was established as an English colonial town in 1737; and was a center of the interstate slave trade and the capitol of the Confederacy during the nineteenth century. Although Richmond holds a prominent place in the narrative of American and Virginia history, the city’s archaeological resources have received incredibly little attention or preservation advocacy. However, in the wake of a 2013 proposal to construct a baseball stadium in the heart of the city’s slave trading district, archaeological sensitivity and vulnerability became a …
Building And Planting: The Material World, Memory, And The Making Of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726, Catharine Christie Dann Roeber
Building And Planting: The Material World, Memory, And The Making Of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726, Catharine Christie Dann Roeber
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The process of creating the colony of Pennsylvania began with the granting of a charter by King Charles II to William Penn in 1681. However the formation of Pennsylvania was not limited to the words of this or other official documents. Many people formed the province through both everyday actions and extraordinary events. and importantly, people involved in the Pennsyvlania project employed both material "toolkits" and language about the material world to stake a place for the new territory within the Americas, Britain, and the world in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.;This dissertation examines how William Penn and his contemporaries …
Shellfishing, Ceramics, And Gender: Shell Midden Ceramics From The Kiskiak Site, Jessica Marie Herlich
Shellfishing, Ceramics, And Gender: Shell Midden Ceramics From The Kiskiak Site, Jessica Marie Herlich
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Enshrining The Past: Archaeology, History And Memory At Fort St Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont, Jessica Rose Desany
Enshrining The Past: Archaeology, History And Memory At Fort St Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont, Jessica Rose Desany
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Religious Change And Plateau Indians: 1500 -1850, Larry Cebula
Religious Change And Plateau Indians: 1500 -1850, Larry Cebula
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This study is an ethnohistorical examination of Indian religious responses to contact with Euroamericans on the Columbia Plateau, from 1600 to 1850. Plateau natives understood their encounter with European civilization primarily as a momentous spiritual event, and sought new sources of spiritual power to cope with their rapidly changing world. White people seemed to the Indians to have an abundance of spirit power, and many native religious efforts were aimed at capturing some of this power for themselves. These efforts included the protohistoric Prophet Dance, the syncretic "Columbian Religion" of the fur trade era, and the initial enthusiastic response to …
All Sorts Of China Ware Large, Noble And Rich Chinese Bowls: Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export Porcelain In Virginia, David Andrew Madsen
All Sorts Of China Ware Large, Noble And Rich Chinese Bowls: Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export Porcelain In Virginia, David Andrew Madsen
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An Archaeological Assessment Of Middlesex County, Virginia, Randy Michael Lichtenberger
An Archaeological Assessment Of Middlesex County, Virginia, Randy Michael Lichtenberger
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No abstract provided.
Paintings As Information: The Anthropology Of Images: A Consideration Of Late Sixteenth And Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Painting In Relation To Foodways And Historical Archeology, Melissa Payne
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The Incest Taboo And Lynn Riggs' Territory Folk, Vivan Baker Donaldson
The Incest Taboo And Lynn Riggs' Territory Folk, Vivan Baker Donaldson
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No abstract provided.