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Wolf Pits in 17th Century Delaware (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the early colonial period Governmental authorities recognized the physical dynamics of free-ranging forms of various livestock set against the backdrop of a wolf-laden wilderness, was or could be a costly nuisance and thus ordered wolves to be hunted and trapped in order to mitigate the problem. In May...