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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Sensing in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Brazil, the largest escaped slave community in the Americas incorporated multiple settlements into a united federation. This was Palmares, named for the palm forests where they sheltered in the Captaincy of Pernambuco. Encompassing nine individual villages at its height in the mid-1600s, this community’s only...
Slavery and the subaltern: bioarchaeological analyses of Viking Age Swedish populations (2016)
The definition of slavery during the long Scandinavian Viking Age (AD c.750–1100) is far from simple. In recent years scholars have pointed out that the terminology for slaves, and the attitudes towards unfree labourers, found in Icelandic Sagas, on rune stones or in law codes, actually reflect a significant variation in social rank. Even though slaves and the slave trade constituted an important and determining element in the Scandinavian economy during this time, a material culture clearly...
Transforming material collectives: the subaltern vs the global (2016)
In this paper the relation between transforming material collectives and subalternity is investigated. When a people or group incorporate new materials hereby slowly transforming its own material collective into the similar new ‘dominating’ material collective, does that imply that the ‘subaltern’ loses its archaeological identity? Does it mean the dominating new collective always represents ‘hegemony’? Not necessarily. In this paper, cases from the circum-Caribbean are discussed concerning...
Who’s Free Markets? Subaltern Economic Networks in Reconstruction Delmarva and the Importance of Philadelphia (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Philadelphia has always been an important cultural hub for the African American community of the Delmarva. Prior to Emancipation, there was a notable free African American population within the region, a population which began developing their own economic network during the early 19th century. This network ran parallel as a...