Drinking Buddies: Wine Bottle Seals as a Window on Williamsburg’s Social Scene.

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.

As individual artifacts, wine bottle seals are valued for the names and dates they that they deliver, for their utility as status markers, and for their unique beauty. Considered in large numbers across a broader spatial context, personalized bottle seals hold additional potential to reveal social interaction. Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeological collection includes several hundred wine bottle seals recovered over nearly a century of excavation. This study presents an examination of the relationships, both business and personal, suggested by mapping the locations of recovered bottle seals, against their sites of origin in Williamsburg’s 18th century urban context.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SHA 2022 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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