Late 17th Century (1660-1690) (Temporal Keyword)

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Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The Environmental Impacts of Dietary Preferences at Two 17th-Century Maryland Households (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie M. J. Hall.

Investigations of household-level interactions with local ecosystems at two seventeenth-century sites, both located on the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center campus, explore human occupants’ interactions with the local environment.  English immigrants to late 17th-century Maryland impacted the landscape through traditional agricultural practices including the keeping of livestock herds.  Analysis of faunal assemblages from the Shaw’s Folly and Sparrow’s Rest sites, examined at the...