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Style and Substance: Button Production, Use, and Choice at the Buffalo Forge Iron Plantation (2023)
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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. When several different types of buttons are recovered from an archaeological site, how can we parse and explain differences in choice and use? And what might we learn about the different people who made, used, or reused them? This paper explores these questions through study of a diverse button assemblage recovered from two women’s...