Fur Trade Panels

Part of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological project

Author(s): Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Year: 2011

Summary

Series of interpretive panels created for the 2011 Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Open House. Individual panel themes are: New France and the Place of the Fur Trade, How the Fur Trade Worked, Fur Trade Society, Native Peoples and the Fur Trade, Getting Around in 17th and 18th Century New France, Birchbark Canoes, Beaver - Mainstay of the Trade, Trade Goods (two panels), and Fur Trade Myths.

Cite this Record

Fur Trade Panels. Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project. 2011 ( tDAR id: 373849) ; doi:10.6067/XCV83777S9

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
British Colonial • Euroamerican • French Colonial • Historic • Historic Native American • Miami • Potawatomi

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Metal • Shell • Wood

Site Name
Fort St. Joseph

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Hearth • Historic Structure • Hunting / Trapping • Midden • Non-Domestic Structures • Palisade • Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Rock Alignment • Settlements • Structure • Trash Midden

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Ethnohistoric Research • Geophysical Survey • Historic Background Research • Reconnaissance / Survey • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Cultural Interaction • Ethnogenesis • Fort St. Joseph • Fur Trade • garrison • Jesuit • mission • Public Archaeology • Trading Post

Geographic Keywords
Great Lakes • Pays d'en Haut

Temporal Keywords
Colonial Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1691 to 1781

Spatial Coverage

min long: -86.285; min lat: 41.794 ; max long: -86.238; max lat: 41.827 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Nassaney

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
a1-new-france-and-the-place-of-the-fur-trade.pdf 691.42kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:24 PM Public
a2-how-the-fur-trade-worked.pdf 619.49kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:25 PM Public
a3-fur-trade-society.pdf 598.53kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:26 PM Public
a4-native-peoples-and-the-fur-trade.pdf 633.06kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:29 PM Public
a5-getting-around-in-17th-and-18th-century-new-france.pdf 698.58kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:30 PM Public
a6-birchbark-canoes.pdf 706.23kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:32 PM Public
a7-beaver---mainstay-of-the-trade.pdf 677.04kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:34 PM Public
a8-trade-goods-part-1.pdf 665.17kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:35 PM Public
a9-trade-goods-part-2.pdf 763.04kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:37 PM Public
a10-fur-trade-myths.pdf 364.80kb Dec 29, 2011 5:37:38 PM Public