An Intellectual Genealogy of Plymouth Colony Archaeology

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.

One of Dr. Mary Beaudry’s long-term research interests was in the archaeology of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. This paper traces some of the history and legacies of that interest, including Mary’s research on Deetz’s archaeological collections in the 1980s, her encouragement of her students’ research on the Plymouth Colony, and her broad influences on the generations of archaeologists and curators she trained who followed her. Her close attention to material culture, research on foodways, and experience in urban archaeology all play a role in this story. We trace these legacies to describe how they contributed to our long-term collaborative project which combines a major reanalysis of extant archaeological collections with new excavations of 17th-century sites in downtown Plymouth.

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• “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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