Poverty And Plenty In The North

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jette Linaa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 16th and 17th century saw a growth in the urban poor, many of whom were parts of a mass migration from countryside to cities. Many of the newcomers were poor trying to escape a poverty induced by epidemics, wars, climate change or political unrest. Some managed to settle in the cities for life, while others faced a life in constant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eva Svensson. Hilde Amundsen. Hanna Enefalk.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Crofters, leasing their land and homes, were dependent on the landowners such as peasant and estates. The agricultural land attached to the crofts were seldom enough for a family to make a proper living. Therefore, crofters practised different odd jobs and handicrafts to make ends meet. Special opportunities were offered by iron works...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney E Singleton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Disgust is experienced as a “gut reaction” against something (an ambiguous object) mediated through sensory experience, typically smell, touch, and sight. It is an affect that is materially grounded and results in the need to create a boundary, distance, between “self” and the object that elicits the response. While working as a contemporary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Georg Haggren.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass vessels were hardly vital items for people living in the Northern Europe during the early modern era. Everybody could easily live without glass vessels. The old museum collections consisting exclusive items support this picture. However, there is a sharp contrast between the old museum collections and the archaeological record. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kari Uotila. Maija Helamaa. Georg Haggrén.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Large scale (c. 2 hectare) town excavations were carried out at the Market Square in Turku in 2018-2022. The excavations in revealed well preserved layers and structures more than 20 different town plots inhabited by mainly merchants, craftsmen and military and civil officers. The excavation area is mainly moist clay and organic material is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Lau. Lacey B. Carpenter. Christian Goodwillie. Erika Sanchez Goodwillie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Central New York has experienced cycles of economic prosperity and stagnation. We examine these cycles in the 19th and early 20th centuries through the lived experiences of residents on one plot of land: the Barnabas Pond Farmstead. Originally delineated and constructed between 1797 and 1805 by settlers from Connecticut, the homestead was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Paul R. Mullins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Finland was a part of Swedish kingdom some 700 years during the Medieval and early modern periods, before 1809. The country became an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars 1809. The Finnish senate declared country’s independence at the December 1917. The new country and the nation had a necessity to find its...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laura Burnett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Increased monetisation - the plentiful supply of money, including physical cash - is often seen as an unalloyed economic good. However, studies which focus on money supply as an abstract, rather than money's physical and institutional form, can underplay variations in access to money and to specific types of money. Archaeology provides...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin M. Lucas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the tension between moveable and immoveable wealth among different households and communities in postmedieval iceland. Drawing on archaeological research at several sites dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, the connections between human and object mobilities will be explored in relation to issues of social mobility in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tuuli S. Matila. Marika Hyttinen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Finland is a modern Nordic welfare state and has a coherent national narrative about poverty or rather the inexistence of it. In this paper we examine a community called Vaakunakylä that was located in Oulu, Finland during the post-war reconstruction period (1947-1987). The community that lived there was subject to eviction from their homes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jakob O. Jonsson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation will introduce some of the results of the presenter’s recent Doctoral dissertation which explored questions surrounding the consumption of imported goods in Iceland during its Monopoly Trade Period, which has been seen as a time of economic stagnation and material impoverishment while under the rule of a foreign power, by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Scarlett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Physicists say that energy is the ability to cause change (or do work), while power is the rate at which energy is transmitted or used. When human’s harness or harvest energy, it must take material form so people can use, transmit, or store it. During industrialization, humans increased scales of energy mobility through extraction, storage, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie E. Kearns.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sweathouses are small vernacular saunas which were used in the 19 th Century to alleviate the symptoms of rheumatism and other illnesses. Their existence reflects the reliance that many people had on traditional forms of medicine up until the turn of the 20 th century, especially in poorer, rural communities, where modern medicine was not...