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Local and Global Ecologies: Macrobotanical Evidence from Bartram’s Garden (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria T Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The effects of the pursuit of Natural History were manifold. Occurring simultaneously with imperial expansion and settler colonialism, the act of collecting and transporting natural specimens rewrote political, intellectual, and ecological landscapes. This paper focuses on the impacts of plant collecting on natural environments, by...