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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded by the English Company in 1607, James Fort was Virginia's first and, for over a decade, England's primary settlement in the New World. The fort was situated in an unfamiliar wilderness and separated from the homeland by an ocean. However, ceramics from all over the world supplied the...
"The Old Powder Horn": The Many Forgotten Forms and Functions of One of Williamsburg’s Oldest Public Buildings (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Williamsburg’s octagonal powder magazine building has been one of the town’s most recognizable landmarks since the early 18th century, outlasting most of Williamsburg’s other public architecture. One common refrain by visitors to town in the 19th and 20th centuries, after the building ceased to function as a public magazine, is...