Middle Atlantic USA (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James G. Gibb.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early Colonial (1650s through 1750s) sites on Maryland’s Western Shore occupy several distinct ecosystems, each offering opportunities for, and imposing constraints on, provisioning strategies. Faunal data assembled from eight Maryland sites along the Chesapeake Bay measure that variability as the first phase in a larger study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara J. Heath.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early records from Chicacoan, the first permanent English community on Virginia’s Northern Neck, refer to residents “going to Virginia,” in spite of living within that colony’s established boundaries. Settling land that the colonial government had forbidden its citizens to occupy, and openly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Gibb. George Riseling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavation of the ca. 1720s-1770s William and Mary Goe plantation examined 116 cultural features including three privies, the cellar of a possible log dwelling, two likely dwellings for enslaved workers, fence lines, and 23 pit features. We provide an overview of the analytical approach used to determine functions of the pit...