Material Interaction Between the Wampanoag and English in the Plymouth Colony Settlement: An Assessment from Excavations on Burial Hill
Author(s): David Landon; Christa Beranek
Year: 2018
Summary
Recent archaeological excavation has recovered the first intact features related to the early-17th-century Plymouth Colony settlement in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts. This paper presents an overview of these investigations with a particular focus on the representation of Native Wampanoag lithics and pottery across the English features. These data are critically examined to assess whether this represents inclusion of Native materials from an underlying site or the use of Native technology within the English village. The wide spread presence of Native pottery comingled with European pottery suggests one possible pattern of material exchange and interaction in this colonial setting.
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Material Interaction Between the Wampanoag and English in the Plymouth Colony Settlement: An Assessment from Excavations on Burial Hill. David Landon, Christa Beranek. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441543)
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Keywords
General
Ceramics
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mateial exchange
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Plymouth Colony
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Wampanoag
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
17th 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): 675