Those Beyond The Walls: An Archaeological Examination Of Michilimackinac’s Extramural Domestic Settlement,1760-1781.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Ideal for both the French and British, the location of Fort Michilimackinac was selected to serve as a key entrepôt for European goods from the colonized east coast to be traded for furs from the Upper Country. The diverse population that formed around Michilimackinac included French and British soldiers, traders, craftsmen, and their families, as well as large seasonal populations of Native Americans. While the Fort’s interior continues to be vigorously examined, little focus has been directed to the larger, multicultural village that emerged outside the fort’s walls in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

Excavations from 1970-1973 attempted to explore this external settlement and uncovered three rowhouses. This study analyizes ceramic and personal adornment assemblage collected by Lyle Stone during the four-year mitigation project to determine the socioeconomic and ethnic itities of the occupants of the extramural settlement at Fort Michilimackinac in the latter half of the 1770s.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SHA 2023 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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