In The Wake of Malouin Fishermen : Ceramic Evidence of the Transatlantic Triangular Cod Trade, 17th-18th centuries.

Gaëlle Dieulefet; Brad Loewen

In The Wake of Malouin Fishermen : Ceramic Evidence of the Transatlantic Triangular Cod Trade, 17th-18th centuries.

Author(s): Gaëlle Dieulefet; Brad Loewen

Year: 2020

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Archaeological collections in Canada from the 17th and 18th centuries contain North-Mediterranean ceramics, in contexts related to Saint-Malo fisheries. This paper retraces the route of Mediterranean ceramics to study triangular Atlantic trade and ceramic diffusion routes. To link these ceramics with Atlantic routes, we consider the sea route through the Strait of Gibraltar, was used by seasonal cod fishermen from Saint-Malo who sold their catch in Marseilles, the principal Mediterranean destination for dried cod. We follow the peregrinations of Malouin sailors to Newfoundland fishing havens and other ports to Marseilles. Through the identification and dating of North Mediterranean ceramics found in Canada, this material culture sheds light on a discrete but persistent maritime network of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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In The Wake of Malouin Fishermen : Ceramic Evidence of the Transatlantic Triangular Cod Trade, 17th-18th centuries.. Gaëlle Dieulefet, Brad Loewen. Boston, USA. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456988)