Shenandoah Valley, VA/American South (Geographic Keyword)
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A Macrobotanical Analysis of a Root Cellar at the Belle Grove Enslaved Quarters (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. This study explores the relationships between food choice and resistance at a 19th century plantation in the United States. In 2017, archaeologists excavated two features at the Belle Grove enslaved quarters in Middletown, Virginia— a root cellar and borrow pit that was filled in when a log cabin burned down. By using comparative...