Unearthing St. Mary's City
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6683-7 (ISBN)
This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America. Founded in 1634, the city had disappeared by 1750, yet the archaeology documented in Unearthing St. Mary's City reveals its untold history.Contributors to this volume review new research approaches and methods developed recently at Historic St. Mary's City. They study the archaeology, architecture, and people of the lively seventeenth-century colonial hub. They also explore the landscapes of agriculture, enslavement, and remembrance that developed at the site in the centuries after the capital's relocation to Annapolis. In their chapters, contributors delve into subjects such as soil analysis, ceramics, diet, forts, burials, plantations, state houses, tenants, tobacco pipes, gaming, and the education of women.
The lands along the Chesapeake Bay have witnessed a vast range of human experiences, and this book highlights the lives of peoples of European, Native American, and African origins who lived on this site over a span of four centuries. Their stories illuminate the multilayered nature of this important place and the broader Chesapeake region and serve as a testament to the potential and power of historical archaeology.
Henry M. Miller is the Maryland Heritage Scholar at Historic St. Mary's City. Travis G. Parno, director of research and collections at Historic St. Mary's City, is coeditor of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology
Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods2. From Humus Mold to Stout Building: Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures
3. Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited
4. Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example
5. Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital
Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
6. The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures
7. St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations
8. "Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City
9. Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland
10. "The most bewitching Game": Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
11. The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake
Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries
12. The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community
13. A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them
14. The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City
15. "Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary
16. Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place
References
List of Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 84 black & white illustrations, 10 tables |
| Verlagsort | Florida |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 835 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8130-6683-2 / 0813066832 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8130-6683-7 / 9780813066837 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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