Historical archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600-1850 edited by Richard Veit and David Orr

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Veit, Richard Francis, 1968-

Orr, David Gerald, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Antiquities.

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--History, Local.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction / Richard Veit and David Orr

American Indian archaeology of the historic period in the Delaware Valley / R. Michael Stewart

Charles Conrad Abbott's archaeological investigations at a seventeenth-century house on Burlington Island, New Jersey / Carolyn Dillian, Charles Bello, Richard Veit, and Sean McHugh

Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: working toward the preservation of a significant historical landscape / Joseph R. Blondino

Unearthing Wistarburgh: America's first successful glasshouse / Damon Tvaryanas and William B. Liebeknecht

Transculturation and ethnogenesis: material culture from an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania German farmstead/distillery / Patricia Gibble

The archaeology of food in colonial Pennsylvania: historical zooarchaeological exploration of foodways on the Stenton Plantation / Teagan Schweitzer

The Roosevelt Inlet shipwreck, an eighteenth-century British commercial vessel in the lower Delaware Bay: a framework for interpretation / Daniel Griffith

The archaeology of quakerism in Philadelphia and beyond: identity, conformity, and context / John M. Chenoweth

The baker and the quaker: ongoing research from the National Constitution Center Site / William Hoffman and Deborah Miller

Rediscovering Franklin: the archaeology of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia / Patrice Jeppson

The early poor in Philadelphia: a preliminary report on the Philadelphia City Almshouse privy excavation / Mara Kaktins and Sharon Allitt

The root of the matter: searching for William Hamilton's greenhouse at the Woodlands Estate, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Sarah Chesney

"He will be a bourgeois American and spend his fortune in making gardens": an archaeological examination of Joseph Bonaparte's Point Breeze Estate / Richard Veit and Michael Gall

Historical archaeology in Trenton: a thirty-year retrospective / Richard W. Hunter and Ian Burrow

It takes a village: archaeology and identity at Timbuctoo / Christopher P. Barton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781572339972 (hardcover)

1572339977 (hardcover)

OCLC:

835116749