Social Landscape (Other Keyword)

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Becoming Jack Tar: The Vessel as a Center for the Construction of Identity (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Annaliese Dempsey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Vessels during the Age of Sail in the French maritime empire served multiple vital functions, both economical and cultural, and were the nexus of multiple important historical narratives, including wars, the peak of Atlantic piracy, and the transatlantic slave trade. However, the vessel did not...


Exploring Nevada rock art as a social landscape (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Angus Quinlan.

Approximately 1,500 rock art sites that broadly span the Archaic have been identified in Nevada. Regional and temporal differences in site structure, rock art styles, landscape settings, and associated archaeological contexts are discernible in these data, offering insights into Great Basin culture history and the categorization of the environment as a social landscape by prehistoric populations. Traditional approaches to Nevada rock art have often emphasized interpretation at the expense of...


Re-Constructing Landscapes: the Social Forest, Nature and Spirit-World in Samoa (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. D. Olson.

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Recent Research into an Antebellum Brick Slave Cabin at Poplar Forest Plantation (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen E. McIlvoy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located only 200 feet east of Thomas Jefferson’s retreat house lay two unassuming brick structures constructed in the 1850s. Based on oral history, one initially housed black enslaved laborers, while the other housed a white overseer and his family. While Jefferson’s architectural showpiece often...