Exploring 12,000 Years of Occupation, Land Use, and Conflict: Archaeological and Historical Research Sponsored by the Mashantucket and Eastern Pequot Tribes
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
The Mashantucket and Eastern Pequot Reservations in southeastern Connecticut have an extraordinarily rich culture history that together span over 12,000 years. Over the last thirty years both tribes have generously supported a wide range of archaeological and historical research on Colonial and Native (Pequot) lifeways on and off the Reservations. This research has focused primarily on pre-contact occupations, documenting the richness and continuity of the Pequot presence on the reservations, the Pequot’s contact, conflict, and interactions with European colonists, and the Pequot’s continued survivance throughout the colonial era. These investigations have led to a better understanding of Native American experiences in southern New England and provided new opportunities for public education through scholarship, exhibits, and educational programs. This session highlights recent and ongoing research with papers focused on periods ranging from the Paleo-Indian to the Historic.
Other Keywords
Historical Archaeology •
Pequot War •
battlefield archaeology •
Pequot •
Architecture •
Native American •
Sawmill •
Cultural Resource Management •
Smoking •
Ethnogeography
Geographic Keywords
North America - Northeast
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- Documents (14)
- The Battlefield Archaeology of Domestic Sites: Wartime Production during the Pequot War (1636- 1637) (2016)
- Battlefields of the Pequot War (1636-1637) (2016)
- Indigenous Metalworking: An Examination of Metal Production and Use During the Pequot War (2016)
- Integrating Community, History, and Objects: Reflections on Eastern Pequot Reservation Archaeology (2016)
- The Mill Site at Ohomowauke: An Eighteenth-Century Euro-American Domestic and Industrial Occupation on the Periphery of the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation (2016)
- "the more usual Place of their Abode": Ethnogeography, Community Dynamics, and Household Economies on the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation (2016)
- The Paleoindian Period At Mashantucket (2016)
- Pestilences of the Just War: An Epidemiologic Investigation of the Pequot War (2016)
- The Power of Plants: Recentering Traditional Ecological Knowledge in New England (2016)
- A Preliminary Analysis of Calluna Hill (CT 59-73), an early 17th-century Pequot Village (2016)
- Sandy Hill: A Preliminary Reanalysis (2016)
- Smoking Areas: Change and continuity of Eastern Pequot smoking practices through spatial analysis and clay tobacco pipe distributions. (2016)
- Space and Architecture: Historical Archaeology at the Eastern Pequot reservation (2016)
- The Thirty-Three Year History of Cultural Resource Management at the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation (2016)