Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Loewen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the centuries before Europeans arrived in their lands, Indigenous societies around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence gradually renounced the long-distance exchange and mobility that had characterised their more distant past. Beginning in the Middle Woodland period, we may infer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noémie Tomadini. Sandrine Grouard.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cod salted fish occupy a privileged place in the diet in the French West Indies and Reunion: accras, féroce, "chiquetaille", or "rougail morue" who has not heard of, if not tasted, these traditional dishes of the French Creole gastronomy? Native to the northern waters of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghann Livingston.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 17th century, French fishing fleets in Newfoundland concentrated their efforts in two regions: the northern coast called the Petit Nord, and the southwest coast of the island, around Placentia Bay, toward the islands of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, and beyond the Burin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mallory Champagne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. 3610km separates the two administrative poles of the French-Atlantic, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in the North and Martinique in the South. Despite the distance and conflict that plagued the open ocean and those who braved it, a cultural connectedness was borne through the networks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iosu Etxezarraga Ortuondo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper aims to introduce a broad perspective on the adaptation of funerary customs of the Europeans to different contexts in western Atlantic territories. Previous work focused in featuring different burial traditions among the Basques and their manifestation in the fisheries...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. Antczak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The saltpan of the largely forgotten Venezuelan island of La Tortuga was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century central to the functioning of the British Atlantic economy. I retrace the itineraries of the free solar sea salt that was harvested by Anglo-American seafarers at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cécile Sauvage. Elise Nectoux. Eric Rieth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is the only French colony that is entirely devoted to the exploitation of cod fishing rights on the Grand Banks. Since the 17th century, it was the technical base of this activity and thus the starting point of the world cod trade. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijo Gauthier-Bérubé.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beyond the distribution of goods and the mobility of individuals, trading networks also involve the dissemination of knowledge and ideas, both through passive and active processes. Because ships were central to these networks, shipwrights participated in this intellectual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chermaine Liew ZheMin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bay Bulls is known as one of the oldest settlements on the island of Newfoundland. Ideally situated on the “Southern Shore” of the Avalon Peninsula, Bay Bulls harbour was used by European fishermen from countries including France, Spain, and Portugal as early as the 16th century,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liza Gijanto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the time of Portuguese arrival on the Gambia River (1446) the coastal polity of Niumi was a local source for salt for the interior and caravans coming to the coast. The region's entanglement in Atlantic commerce at various points between the 17th and 20th centuries lead to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark W Hauser.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It has long been recognized that the scale, speed, and magnitude of mobility accelerated dramatically after .ca 1500, through physical movement, communication, and crafting.  Despite this recognition, Historical Archaeology has painted itself into an epistemic corner by employing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sebastien Pauly.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The French sugar activity, trade and production, is necessarily maritime because of the climate required for the cultivation of cane. It thus participates, from the 16th century, in the development of the atlantic then transatlantic economy. Having the tools necessary for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gaëlle Dieulefet.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Salt is an essential food. Among maritime populations first, then for crews especially during the Early Modern Period with the development of ocean navigation. In the diet of crews, salt is subject to an administrative organization with French Ordinance of the Navy. It allows...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aubrey L. O'Toole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recurring tension and outright warfare between the Netherlands and Britain in the 17th century did not prevent Dutch ships from transporting desirable goods from their far-flung trading outposts to the expanding North American colonies. An examination of material culture and...