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The Social Dynamics of Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake: Inferences from Tobacco Pipe Assemblages and Their Archaeological Contexts. (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digging Deep: Close Engagement with the Material World" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We explore how the analysis of variation in tobacco pipe assemblages among excavation contexts provides insights into social dynamics on eighteenth-century slave quarter sites in the Chesapeake. We draw on data from multiple quarter sites, available on the DAACS website (daacs.org). We apply signaling theory to build a...