"From Parts beyond the Seas": An Analysis of Trade and Plymouth Colony Ceramics

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Research on the “Old Colony”: Recent Approaches to Plymouth Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Although Plymouth Colony has been studied extensively by both historians and archaeologists, materials from the original settlement have only recently been identified by University of Massachusetts, Boston archaeologists at Burial Hill in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts. This paper is a diachronic study comparing 17th-century ceramics from Burial Hill to two homesteads established by Plymouth colonists, the Alden First Home Site and the Allerton/Prence/Cushman Site. This study analyzes the formation of early English colonial trade networks by establishing MNVs and identifying regions of origin for ceramic vessels. This also provides a preliminary comparison of resource availability in Plymouth Colony to contemporaneous English colonies.

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• New Research on the “Old Colony”: Recent Approaches to Plymouth Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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