Conceptualizing Historic Households and Domestic Site Structure: My Early Conversations with Mary Beaudry

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the spring of 1975, Mary Beaudry offered to accompany me to the annual meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology held in those days at Bear Mountain State Park on the Hudson. I had been asked to give the plenary address on my dissertation project - The Mott Farm Project: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Historical Archaeology. In helping me prepare that presentation, and in her commentary afterwards, Mary gave me extremely helpful insights into how to think about the Mott family, the structure of the site itself, and the entire subject of household archaeology. Many of these ideas would soon appear in her early publications on the historical household, historic land use patterns, and the historical archaeology of domestic sites. They constitute important early contributions to understanding a subject that engaged Mary's interest her entire career and stimulated her remarkable interpretive insight for more than forty years.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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