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"to defend against any such weak enemies": Possessiveness and Layered Relationships at St. Mary’s Fort, Maryland (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Guido Pezzarossi (2018) has described colonial forts as “possessive,” in the sense that they were designed and implanted to stake claim to territory and control the movements of people into and around them. Yet for all their projected power, early colonial forts were perched precariously within lands rich...