Displacement and Adjustment among the Piscataway in Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1680-1743

Author(s): Alex J. Flick

Year: 2018

Summary

This paper examines the assemblages of three sequentially occupied sites related to the displacement and northward migration of the Piscataway from their southern Maryland homeland between 1680 and 1743. These collections provide evidence for the group’s adjustments to new physical and social terrains encountered in dislocation. Although historical records document Piscataway efforts to distance themselves from the encroachment and harassment of English colonists by vacating their ancestral lands, archaeological evidence indicates an increased reliance on European goods coupled with an apparent decline in traditional stone tool and ceramic manufacture. The documentary and archaeological evidence helps to reconstruct the changing material conditions of displaced Piscataway life and to demonstrate how these changes reflect the group’s efforts to preserve tribal and cultural autonomy in the face of colonization.

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Displacement and Adjustment among the Piscataway in Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1680-1743. Alex J. Flick. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441333)

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min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 591