The Questions That Count in Fur Trade Archaeology

Summary

Fur trade archaeology mirrors in microcosm the development of the broader field of historical archaeology and reflects changes in its research priorities as influenced by factors both internal and external to the discipline. While contemporary theory informs recent approaches to the fur trade and colonial encounters, traditional concerns have not disappeared. Continued interest in chronology, architecture, spatial organization, subsistence, technological change, cultural interactions, and ethnogenesis suggest that varying approaches co-exist and make possible new syntheses that ultimately emerge as outcomes of concerns that are grounded in practice and social relations. Examples from throughout North America are used as illustration.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2014   •
• Creating the Past in the Present: Critical Reflections on Fur Trade Archaeology

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): SYM-54,01