Exploring Economic Priorities of Protohistoric Communities: Case studies from Northeastern North America and Roman Britannia

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives from the Study of Early Colonial Encounter in North America: Is it time for a “revolution” in the study of colonialism?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper will explore the response of prehistoric communities who rapidly become consumers in continent spanning economies. Using as case studies the Maritime Peninsula of Eastern North America in the 17th century AD and the northern frontiers of the Roman province of Britannia in the first two centuries AD, this paper will consider how active decisions about acquiring or rejecting new materials and material culture elucidate the shifting priorities of these communities in Protohistoric periods. Though the circumstances of these two Protohistoric economies are very different, exploring commonalities and difference between these examples can provide a framework for better understanding less well documented colonial encounters and Protohistoric periods.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Perspectives from the Study of Early Colonial Encounter in North America: Is it time for a “revolution” in the study of colonialism?

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