Unearthing St. Mary's City : fifty years of archaeology at Maryland's first capital / edited by Henry M. Miller, Travis G. Parno ; foreword by William M. Kelso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelso, William M., author of foreword.

Contributor:

Miller, Henry M. (Henry Michael), editor.

Parno, Travis G., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Maryland--Saint Marys City.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Historic sites--Maryland--Saint Marys City.

Historic sites.

Saint Marys City (Md.)--History.

Saint Marys City (Md.).

Saint Marys City (Md.)--Antiquities.

Maryland--Saint Marys City.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Foreword / William M. Kelso

Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology / Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno

Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods

From Humus Mold to Stout Building : Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures / Garry Wheeler Stone and Alexander H. Morrison II

Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited / Silas D. Hurry and Robert Winston Keeler

Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example / Ruth M. Mitchell and Henry M. Miller

Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital / Silas D. Hurry

Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City

The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures / Henry M. Miller and Silas D. Hurry

St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations / Ruth M. Mitchell, Henry M. Miller, and Garry Wheeler Stone

"Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City, Maryland / Charles H. Fithian

Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland / Wesley R. Willoughby

"The most bewitching Game" : Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City / Travis G. Parno and Timothy B. Riordan

The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake / Karin S. Bruwelheide, Henry M. Miller, Douglas W. Owsley and Timothy B. Riordan

Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries

The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community / Garry Wheeler Stone and Stephen S. Israel

A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them / George L. Miller

The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City / Terry Peterkin Brock

"Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary / Michelle Sivilich, Travis G. Parno, Ruth M. Mitchell, and Donald L. Winter

Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place / Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Unearthing St. Mary's city

ISBN:

9780813057767

0813057760

Publisher Number:

40030501039

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.