Is It All Just Faïence and Honey-Colored Gun Flints? Examining the Material Record of Eighteenth-Century French Culture in Multiregional Perspective

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

By the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the “blue crescent” of French land claims and settlement had spread across North America from the Acadian coast to southern Louisiana. While French colonial settlements existed contemporaneously throughout the middle of the continent, historians and archaeologists have tended to study these forts, trading posts, and communities either as isolated points or within regions that were defined by twentieth century etic perspectives. While the environmental conditions of each community’s location played a role in the particular manifestation of French colonial society, there are commonalities across the continent. This paper compares the material record recovered from sites in the colony of Acadia located in the current state of Maine and one in the French colony of Louisiana in the current state of Arkansas to offer a line of evidence of a multiregional perspective of French colonial society.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 41543.0