Refiniing Pinky's Grand Idea for Tobacco Pipe Stem Dating to Enhance Analytic Insights

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Since J. C. “Pinky” Harrington’s 1954 publication of a method of pipe stem dating, it has become a significant tool in historical archaeology analysis. For convenience, he selected a 64ths of an inch metric that became standard.   Recent research using a much finer measuring increment reveals that pipe stems are capable of yielding more analytic insights than merely giving a mean date. This paper reports some of these new findings from a range of sites including the expression of varied occupational histories, enhanced feature dating, and notable evidence about pipe stems found along the Thames foreshore in London. It also presents a new dating approach based upon the evidence from many hundreds of tobacco pipe bowls and marked stems.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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