Yes, Virginia, There Is a Nineteenth Century in Maine

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Northern New England has a rich and lengthy postcontact occupation history. New England archaeologists, historians, and SHPOs long focused on the “First” periods of settlement, such as seventeenth-century forts and eighteenth-century maritime sites, while nineteenth-century resources were dismissed. As Terry’s first PhD student, I entered a rigorous immersion into the study of nineteenth-century ceramics, utilizing minimum vessel counts as units of analysis. Our lessons were held on Sunday afternoons at Terry’s home, where I had access to her extensive library and vast personal collection of ceramics. Her instruction led to my 1992 dissertation on nineteenth-century urban deposits at three sites, then later formed the foundation for decades of contract survey of nineteenth-century homesteads, farms, and mills in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Terry’s contribution to my success in bringing recognition of these resources cannot be overstated.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski

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Abstract Id(s): 38499.0