Small Finds, Big Stories
Author(s): Diana Loren
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Small Finds, Big Stories" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Buttons, marbles, doll parts, beads: all are rare archaeological finds that capture our attention. Small and infrequently recovered artifacts are the focus of this three-minute forum. While small in size, such artifacts have the potential to open the world of daily life in the past: bodily care, sewing and mending, personal appearance, play, etc. Presenters in this forum are asked to consider small finds and their intimate associations to the body, to daily activities, to the small worlds in which they operate, while also reaching toward the larger stories they tell of intangible aspects of life.
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Small Finds, Big Stories. Diana Loren. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449003)
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Keywords
General
Body
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intangibility
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Small Finds
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
17th-19th 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): 198