Seals and Salves in the Pays des Illinois

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Iliniwek to Ste Genevieve: Early Commerce along the Mississippi" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Commerce along the waterways of the Illinois Country left many traces in the archaeological record. Some of these traces provide archaeologists with the opportunity to tie goods back to their European origins and to understand the connections between this interior borderland and the larger Atlantic World. Included in this discussion will be lead seals ("bale seals") and similar artifacts found at sites in the region that attest to the material interconnectedness of life in the Illinois Country and Europe, and to the networks that kept this bond of trade alive.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• From Iliniwek to Ste Genevieve: Early Commerce along the Mississippi

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 273