Seventeenth Century Battlefields in Colonial New England
Author(s): Kevin A. McBride
Year: 2016
Summary
The National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program has provided funding to research and document several battlefields associated with the Pequot War (1636-1637) and King Philip's War (1675-1676) in southern New England. These battlefield surveys have yielded hundreds of battle-related objects including weapons, projectiles, equipment, and personal items associated with the Colonial and Native American combatants. These battlefield surveys have also provided significant information on weapons, tactics, technology of the combatants as well as evidence for evolving Native American social, political, and military compelxity.
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Seventeenth Century Battlefields in Colonial New England. Kevin A. McBride. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434410)
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Keywords
General
Battlefield
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Seventeenth Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 757