With the Best In the House: Ceramic Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Household

Summary

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

The Anthony Farmstead (SOM.HA.4) in Somerset, Bristol County, Massachusetts, was established in 1757 and passed father-to-son through multiple generations of a prosperous New England Yankee family until the mid-nineteenth century, when the property was rented out to tenants. The longest tenant occupation of the property was by a young Irish immigrant couple and their American-born children. Previous research has broadly examined the site’s archaeological assemblage and documentary record to articulate the immigrant family with commonly practiced behaviors within the larger nineteenth-century Irish diaspora culture, and to consider how the family engaged in identity formation simultaneously as Irish and as new Americans. The current research takes a more intensive look specifically at the ceramic assemblage, employing varied analytical approaches in an attempt to develop a more emic understanding of material choices; identity formation and expression; and local, regional, and global economics.

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): 40158.0