More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.

The recent publication of The Archaeology of New Netherland: A World Made by Trade, inspired this panel of papers that builds upon many of the themes introduced in the book, including gender roles, relations with Native Americans, characteristic artifacts associated with the Dutch, and an empire based on mercantilism. More than update of the book, however, the session also explores many new directions of research to document the wide expanse of the seventeenth-century Dutch empire of trade and influence documented archaeologically within and beyond the areas of Dutch settlement in North America. This session combines research drawn from academic scholarship and gray literature compliance projects to glimpse this hybrid culture that extended from modern New York state to the Chesapeake and beyond.

Other Keywords
Dutch • Trade • Colonialism • Ceramics • Identity • New Netherland • Worked Bone • Fortification • Excavation • Photogrammetry

Geographic Keywords
MIDDLE ATLANTIC • Mid-Atlantic • New York State • Delaware • Northeastern United States • Northeast • North Atlantic • Middle Atlantic, Delaware Valley • Northeast USA • Albany NY

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  • 3D Recordation and Visualization of Ft Casimir, New Castle, DE (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Crane.

    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. Three-dimensional recordation and visualization formed an important part of the work of documentation and interpretation at the 17th-century site of Fort Casimir in New Castle, DE. Part of the work funded by the New Castle Historical Society through an American Battlefield Protection Program Grant included...

  • Dutch Artifacts in the NYC Archaeological Repository: The Nan A. Rothschild Repository Center (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard G. Schaefer. Meta F. Janowitz.

    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. The New York City Archaeological Repository houses artifacts from sites excavated within the city under the auspices of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, including those from the New Netherland period and the early (ca. 1664-1700) English colonial town. Many of these sites were dug in the 1980s and it’s...

  • Dutch fishing and trading in Iceland and the Northern Isles of Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Natascha Mehler.

    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. In recent years, several archaeological and historical projects have investigated the fishing and trading of German and Danish merchants and sailors with Iceland and the Northern Isles of Scotland (Shetland, Orkney). The archaeology of the Dutch in this remote part of the Old World is just emerging and indeed...

  • The Dutch in the Hudson Valley (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles T. Gehring.

    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. The first half of my paper will offer a brief background regarding the establishment of the United Provinces of the Netherlands during its war with the Spanish Habsburgs. It will include the chartering of the Dutch East India Company, which served as a model for the Dutch West India Company. This...

  • Edward Byrd’s Mass-Production of EB Tobacco Pipes for Sale to New Netherland Natives and the 17th Century Delaware River (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Furlow.

    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. Six tobacco pipes--Native, Dutch, and English--excavated at the site of the Printzhof on Tinicum Island, capital of New Sweden Colony in the 1650s, reflects a vibrant international market along the Delaware River. English exile Edward Byrd’s funnel-angled white clay EB pipes in that collection represent (1)...

  • Finding New Netherland in New Jersey: Two or Three Dutch Needles in a Supersized Haystack (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian C Burrow.

    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. For the colonists of New Netherland there was of course no “New Jersey”. Rather there was a mostly poorly known, although readily crossed, landmass separating the North and South River foci of Dutch activity. This study provides an archaeological context for the identification and evaluation of pre-1664 Dutch...

  • Gender, Conflict, and Weapons in the 17th Century North Atlantic World (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea L. Anderson.

    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. This paper is an examination of the documented historical experiences and material culture of armed conflict in the North Atlantic World within the gender perspective. Through the lens of conflict-based contexts, I explore how gender-based differences in status and power shaped the lives of women from diverse...

  • "The Hollanders Have Built A Fortress With Four Bastions:" A Synopsis Of The Archaeological Investigations At The Site Of Fort Casimir/Nieuwer Amstel, City of New Castle, Delaware. (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade P. Catts. William Liebeknecht. Kevin Bradley. Brian D. Crane. D. Brad Hatch.

    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. Fort Casimir was a 17th-century fortification defending the town of New Amstel, today’s New Castle, Delaware. Casimir was the center of power for the Dutch West India Company, and later, the City of Amsterdam on the South (Delaware) River. The fort changed hands four times – built by the Dutch in 1651,...

  • Mapping Minisink: An Ambiguous Center in New Netherland (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marian E Leech.

    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. This paper explores the many meanings of Minisink, a Munsee region stretching from the Delaware Water Gap to Port Jervis, New York. Usually thought to mean "at the island," Minisink was a major Native center since at least the start of the Late Woodland Period and well into the mid-eighteenth century. The...

  • More than Waffles and Beer: Some Themes and Prospects in the Archaeology of New Netherland (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig R. Lukezic. John P. McCarthy.

    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. This paper considers some broad themes that connect the archaeology of the Dutch experience in North America and beyond. The Dutch international enterprise centered on commerce and the Dutch relied on the active participation of Native Americans, enslaved Africans, and European colonists in creating a world...

  • Performing Colonialism: Setting the Stage at New Amstel (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lu Ann DeCunzo.

    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. The seventeenth-century colonial experiment along the Atlantic coast of North America was staged, negotiated, and subverted in ritualizing performances of exchange, diplomacy, sociability, law, and conflict. A growing body of archaeological evidence coupled with the extensive New Netherland archives is...

  • Quamhemesicos (Van Schaick) Island: Archeological Evidence of European-Mahican Interactions at the Twilight of Dutch Colonialism in New York (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Kirk.

    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. Recent archeological excavations on the east side of Van Schaick Island near Albany, New York have revealed a circa 1650 Dutch trading outpost with contemporaneous, related Mahican occupation on the site. An assemblage of trade items and Mahican artifacts document brief but intense interactions near the end...

  • Some Datable Artifacts from Remains of the Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh House of ca. 1650-1664 in Fort Orange (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul R. Huey.

    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. The Dutch West India Company constructed Fort Orange in 1624 on the west bank of the Hudson River about 150 miles north of Manhattan Island. In 1647 the Company began allowing private traders to build houses within the fort. Dutch deeds specified the locations of the private houses. Excavations revealed...

  • TricTrac, Pitch and Toss, and Other Games: The Contexts of Handmade Ceramic Disks in New Netherland (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Lucas.

    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. Examples of European ceramics carved into roughly circular pieces, are found on archaeological sites throughout the Atlantic world. Most scholarship to date focuses on “gaming pieces” created and used by enslaved people on plantations in the Caribbean and southern North America during the 18th and 19th...

  • With This Bone I Thee Make (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie-Lorraine Pipes.

    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. Invisible yet famous, a small number of enslaved Africans were brought to Fort Orange in the seventeenth century. Their presence is known yet no objects have been tied to them. This paper explores the possibility that some worked bone objects made from domesticated mammals were crafted by enslaved Africans....

  • Wolf Pits in 17th Century Delaware (2022)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William B. Liebeknecht.

    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...