Two British Atlantic World Port City Taverns: The Materiality of Public Space and the Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere

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This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Early modern British Atlantic world port cities of North America were filled with a diverse cast of individuals and groups. Public space provided an area for the masses to gather and participate in activities for a variety of purposes. As part of a larger interdisciplinary project, this comparative analysis will primarily look at archaeological assemblages from two taverns, one in colonial Boston, and one in colonial Charles-Town respectively, providing a window into the diverse groups and daily activities being engaged in these public spaces. Further, this poster will address what material culture can suggest about the role of public space and the eighteenth-century public sphere. A study of public space can help scholars pose questions of inquiry about British Atlantic world port city populations and the social and cultural imperatives that were shaped by, and subsequently helped shape, eighteenth-century public space.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies

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