Midwest, North America (Geographic Keyword)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over twenty years of excavations at the historic site of Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post, have revealed thousands of glass beads. These small personal adornment artifacts can provide information about the occupants of the fort, specifically about expressions of their social identities. By expanding on previous research that focused on...
Those Beyond The Walls: An Archaeological Examination Of Michilimackinac’s Extramural Domestic Settlement,1760-1781. (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. Ideal for both the French and British, the location of Fort Michilimackinac was selected to serve as a key entrepôt for European goods from the colonized east coast to be traded for furs from the Upper Country. The diverse population that formed around Michilimackinac included French and British soldiers, traders, craftsmen, and...