“Fire and Be Damned”: An Analysis of Lead Bullets from Alamance Battleground State Historic Site (31MR397)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Regulator Rebellion, a fourteen-year conflict between corrupt colonial powers and backcountry residents seeking governmental regulation, has been the subject of scholarly debate, the focus of numerous books and articles, and the inspiration for famous works of fiction. Despite academic and public intrigue, research on the Regulator Rebellion has been limited to the analysis of historical documents and accounts with little attention paid to the archaeological remains associated with events of the rebellion.

The work presented in this poster seeks to rectify the lack of archaeological analysis surrounding the Regulator Rebellion through an artifact analysis of lead bullets recovered from Alamance Battleground. This poster seeks to answer the question: how can lead bullets found at Alamance Battleground provide new insights into the battle such as the location and emotional state of social actors?

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37893.0