Seeding Colonialism; European trade Beads within Native American Contexts
Author(s): Charlotte Goudge
Year: 2017
Summary
The typological and scientific study of trade beads in Native American contexts has contributed a great deal to understanding contact period sites (ca. 1607–1783). The Cape Creek site, NC is a perfect example of British-indigenous connectivity in the contact period and is important for understanding interaction in the Southeast. Unlike other studies of this type that mostly focus on mortuary sites, Cape Creek is a village settlement and will therefore provide a different view of day-to-day bead usage in a domestic context. This paper will discuss the change of field methodologies that allowed for increased detection of beads within the complicated strata of Cape Creek, and will also apply previous methodologies to analyse the beads and discuss possibilities for dating and sourcing.
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Seeding Colonialism; European trade Beads within Native American Contexts. Charlotte Goudge. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435466)
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Keywords
General
Beads
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Colonialism
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Native American
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
American Contact Period
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 489