Chesapeake archaeology (Other Keyword)

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Learned Landscapes: Colonoware Concentrations on Virginia's Northern Neck (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine P Gill.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonoware, found on many sites throughout the Mid-Atlantic, a locally-made ware rooted in cross-cultural pottery-making traditions, has been recovered from Virginia’s Northern Neck. Northern Neck colonoware differs from that recovered elsewhere in Virginia in terms of temper, surface treatment,...


Mary C. Beaudry: The Missing Virginia Years, 1972 to 1980 (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Samford. Julia A. King.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Biographies of Mary Beaudry's career usually begin in Virginia, where Mary was an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary. There, Mary's interest in archaeology was born when she volunteered on a project for the late Norman Barka at Maycock's Point. Mary left...


Moments of Ambiguity: Using Jesuit Rings to Highlight Periods of Cultural Entanglement within the Potomac and Rappahannock River Valleys (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca J Webster.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Imaginaries, Regional Realities: 50 Years of Work in the Chesapeake", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists studying the Chesapeake have interpreted the long 17th century as a period of certain and extended colonialism. However, by taking a sub-regional approach when examining the period, the shifts in power between Indians and settlers become more visible. In this paper, I examined...