Home Is Where the Hearth Is: Narragansett Indian Houses and Homes on the Eve of European Contact

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Site RI 110 on the southern Rhode Island coast has yielded evidence of a large Narragansett Indian settlement occupied between AD 1000 and 1500. Archaeological investigations exposed more than 20 individual *wetus (house sites) within an approximate 0.81 ha (2-acre) portion of the larger site. This paper will describe precontact Narragansett Indian house construction, intrasite house patterning, and variability in house size, shape, and the use of domestic space (home). The results provide new insights into Narragansett Indian life during the decades and centuries leading up to first European contact in the Narragansett Bay area in the sixteenth century.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast

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Abstract Id(s): 31999