Human Agency and Materiality: An Exploration of  Historic Fort Lauderdale Through Glass Bottles

Crystal Geiger

Human Agency and Materiality: An Exploration of Historic Fort Lauderdale Through Glass Bottles

Year: 2015

Summary

Historic material objects are the link between the choices that people make and their cultural values. This paper presents the results of glass bottle analysis from a nineteenth century pioneer camp site (Stranahan 8BD259) located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Glass analysis reveals patterns of use, as well as, social and temporal values. The comparison of cultural materials and historic documents provide important clues into the ways in which early settlers negotiated frontier life.

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Human Agency and Materiality: An Exploration of Historic Fort Lauderdale Through Glass Bottles. Crystal Geiger. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 398330)

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Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

General
Glass • Historic Archaeology • Urban

Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast

Spatial Coverage

min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;