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This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historic glass trade beads found at plantation archaeological sites have been identified as markers of African and African American culture and expression. In the southeastern United States, the presence of beads can be attributed to inter-cultural exchange with Native Americans and/or strategically obtained through the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Since 2011, Rhodes College has located and...
The Cotton King(dom): Reevaluating the Economic Capital of Cedar Grove Plantation in Western Tennessee (2021)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster will contextualize the socio-economic role of Cedar Grove Plantation in western Tennessee. This type of economic-based, historical investigation has not been conducted within this transition zone of the Lower Mississippi Delta and the Upland South. We focus on the life story of John Walker Jones before, during and after the rapid growth of Cedar Grove Plantation (1825-1865),...
The Origins of Food Inequality in the US South: Intersecting the Past, Present, and Future (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This project highlights an interdisciplinary approach to uncover the origins of food inequality as related to food production, distribution, and access across the US South. Our case study, Memphis and its surrounding rural landscape, is well known for its “Wall Street-like” slave-based economy and commodity crop...