Zooarchaeology and GIS: Enslaved and Free Black Diet at a Late Eighteenth– to Mid–Nineteenth–Century Delaware Farm, New Castle County, Delaware, United States

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Archaeological investigations at Locus 1 of the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric site (7NCF112) in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States have found spatially distinct features and artifacts that provide information about the lives of eighteenth– through mid–nineteenth–century enslaved and free Black occupants. Some of these are also intermixed with those associated with white tenants. A sizable assemblage of faunal remains from these features reveal complex dynamics of meat consumption between social classes and cultural groups over time. The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology aids in the visualization of this data to reveal the contrasts in faunal usage across space between groups as well as nuances in chronology and the variability of meat consumption at Locus 1.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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