New England, United States of American (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Begun as a family homestead in 1642, the Abraham Preble Site in York, Maine, was later fortified to serve as a militia garrison and place-of-refuge during King William's War (1688-1697), a destructive frontier conflict that pitted the English Colonists against the Native Wabanki and their French allies. Intensive archaeological...
Deer, Shells and a Pony: Faunal Evidence from the Abraham Preble Garrison in York, Maine (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. This paper presents the resutls of research conducted using the faunal assemblage recovered from the Abraham Preble Site (ME 497-209) in York, Maine. The Preble's established a homestead on the site in the 1640s, with the location serving as a garrison, a tavern a family residence and an inn during its subsequent centuries of use....
Family History from the Kitchen: A Household-Based Analysis of Ceramic Use in a Mult-Generational Homestead and Garrison Site (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. This paper presents the results of research conducted using the ceramic assemblage recovered from the seventeenth-century Abraham Preble Garrison Complex (ME 497-209) in York, Maine. Excavations conducted in 2021-2022 yielded thousands fo ceramic sherds from as many as nine cellar holes and other architectural features within the...