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DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley Brown III.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study of enslavement within the plantation economies of the West Indies has also documented the period of transition to freedom through "amelioration" and actual emancipation. Though not parts of plantations, domestic sites where enslaved people lived on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo. Vid Petrovic. Eric Lo. Philippe M. Rouja. Jean-Pierre Rouja. Scott Blair. Falko Kuester.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The reefs surrounding Bermuda are home to some 100 historic shipwrecks. Documenting the location and assessing the integrity of wrecks, with respect to individual deposits and overall site morphology, is essential to reconstructing the natural and cultural processes that resulted in the formation of wreck sites and provides both spatial and temporal contextual information. Digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Jarvis.

Building on MRB3's dedication to comparative colonial archaeology, the SIAP incorporates 22 terrestrial sites and adjoining waters to investigate Bermuda's changing history and Atlantic integration across four centuries . Fieldwork since 2010 has uncovered Bermuda's earliest home (timber-frame, c. 1615 to c. 1714), a maritime quarantine building, a cave site, an 18th c. doctor's home, a c. 1759 whale processing complex, several quarries, limekilns, and docks, a small enslaved/free black...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ewan H. Shannon.

Bermuda’s settlement occurred at the dawn of 17th century English colonization of the Atlantic world. This paper elaborates on findings at Smallpox Bay on Smith's Island from excavation between 2013 and 2024 focused on Moore’s Town, Bermuda’s first but short- lived 1612 capital. Material uncovered at this site situates Bermuda’s inception at the intersection of colonial, architectural, and trans-Atlantic histories. Analysis of recently recovered architectural features and building material sheds...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey R Delsescaux. Piotr T Bojakowski.

For the past three years, archaeologists have been carefully excavating the remains of the early 17th-Century English vessel Warwick on the bottom of Castle Harbor, Bermuda.  Although the wreck was partially salvaged in the 1970’s, leaving much of the ballast rocks scattered around the site and unrecorded, there was a small portion of ballast found intact during the 2011 field season. This intact section yielded some interesting artifacts and allowed for better insights into 17th-Century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley Brown III.

Recent comparative scholarship by historians of Anglo-American slavery has emphasized the dynamic relationship between statute law and social practice, particularly as this relationship bears on such issues as economic agency, resistance to enslavement, and collective identity.  This paper revisits selected quarter sites excavated in Tidewater Virginia  in view of the material life of enslaved Bermudians during the eighteenth century.  Recent discoveries at a c. 1720-1860 domestic site in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brent Fortenberry.

The town of St. George's served as Bermuda's colonial capital from 1612 to 1815. Over nearly three hundred years, the town flourished as Bermuda transitioned from a restrictive agriculture economy under the Somers Island Company to a powerful maritime economy under the Crown during the Free Holding period. In this paper I explore the changing urban landscape of St. George's from 1684 to 1730 as the town underwent a dramatic rebuilding when the Somers Island Company was dissolved and the town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Adams.

Galleons for a Transatlantic World The late 16th and early 17th centuries was a period in which English shipping saw the emergence of what might be termed a second generation of carvel construction in which the ‘galleon’ was developed from the carrack derivatives and galleases of Henry VIII’s time. Nowhere are these more beautifully portrayed than in Matthew Baker’s Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightry preserved in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. But astonishingly the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ammandeep K Mahal.

The merchant weights of the Warwick offer a unique insight into the nature of the voyage which brought the ship to Bermuda. Three lead pan weights were discovered at the site and, although the assemblage is small, it represents an important mercantile collection. The lead weights bear the ciphers of English trade guilds, marks, and regal stamps. The smallest weight was stamped with three emblems: the sword of St. Paul, which was the mark of London; an ‘I’ surmounted by the crown which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander T C Cook.

Named for a primitive oven cut into bedrock, Oven Site is demarked on Richard Norwood’s 1616 and 1663 surveys of Bermuda as the home of the captain of nearby Smith’s Fort. The household was abandoned soon after 1707, when a probate inventory was taken of Captain Boaz Sharpe’s possessions. Between 2010 and 2017, excavations revealed the lost history of the century-long occupation of one of Bermuda’s earliest sites, focusing on the mansion’s detached kitchen. The two phases of kitchen occupation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J Jarvis.

Since its 2010 inception, SIAP has holistically pursued study of all human activity on a largely undeveloped 60-acre island in Bermuda and its surrounding waters to better understand this significant Atlantic colonial outpost's history. SIAP's 25+ sites reflect famous "firsts" as well as historically fugitive peoples and activities. This talk surveys how SIAP's widely ranging sites facilitate a better understanding of Bermudians' early settlement and continuous adaptation to change across more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Bennett Gaieski. Theodore G. Schurr.

Conversations about history have a way of shaping historical narrative, often unintentionally and usually in unexpected ways.  Similarly, identity is an ongoing enterprise where individuals adapt, adopt, discard, and change in relation to the vagaries of a remembered past and to realities in the present.  This paper focuses on Bermuda’s St. David’s Islanders, and examines how this geographically isolated and culturally distinct community (re)created an American Indian identity more than three...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Piotr T Bojakowski.

 The remains of the Warwick are one of the largest and most coherent fragments of an early 17th century English ship. Notwithstanding the historical designation of the vessel as the "magazine" ship, the Warwick was far from being an ordinary freighter. As the analysis of its structurecontinues, it appears this ship was a finely crafted and finished vessel and a powerful fighting machine. It was built in a more traditional style, perhaps a style going back to such notable examples as the Mary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna K Carlson.

British colonists in the New World employed a variety of strategies to cope with their new surroundings.  In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century St. George's, Bermuda, settlers embraced the natural abundance of the marine environment while maintaining their reliance on Old World domesticates.  Market access, personal preference, and socioeconomic standing greatly influenced the nature of this balance of Old and New World foodstuffs.  Faunal assemblages from the Henry Tucker House in St. George's...