Contemporary Research of Ceramic Children's Toys in Urban mid-18th to early 1920s Knoxville, TN
Author(s): Garrett B Wamack
Year: 2022
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
An overview and brief analysis of ceramic-based children’s toys of a mid-19th to early 20th century urban archaeological site in Knoxville, Tennessee. Site 40KN223 is situated within a residential, commercial, and industrial block that experienced rapid demographic and economic change as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The site provides a unique window to analyze the role and function of toys in an increasingly industrialized cityscape.Themes of consumerism, learned behaviors, gender, and ritual performances are but a few of the possible avenues of future research at this site. The highlighted research presented here can help to contribute to historical archaeological knowlegde regarding the study of children in the archaeological record.
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Contemporary Research of Ceramic Children's Toys in Urban mid-18th to early 1920s Knoxville, TN. Garrett B Wamack. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA. 2022 ( tDAR id: 469542)
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Keywords
General
Ceramics
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Toys
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Urban Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
Knoxville, Tennessee - Southeast United States
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology