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DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan W Gamble.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Many unique and one of a kind artifacts have been recovered over 20 years of excavation at the site of James Fort. Each artifact tells a story about the people and the lives that were led at the site. One artifact that stands out both for its function and the questions it raises is book...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Gamble.

Book Hardware was utilized both to protect books and to keep them closed.  Books typically do not survive in an archaeological context but the hardware does. This is the case at James Fort.  After over twenty years of excavations, more than one hundred of these artifacts have been recovered.  Book hardware consists of many materials, numerous designs, and varying sizes. But what can be gleaned from this hardware?  First, where they were made can be determined using XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) and...