Early Colonial Meat Provisioning On Maryland’s Western Shore

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Early Colonial (1650s through 1750s) sites on Maryland’s Western Shore occupy several distinct ecosystems, each offering opportunities for, and imposing constraints on, provisioning strategies. Faunal data assembled from eight Maryland sites along the Chesapeake Bay measure that variability as the first phase in a larger study that explores varying dietary patterns and the effects of different provisioning strategies on Chesapeake ecosystems.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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