Bermuda : celebrating 400 years of history / by Brent Fortenberry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortenberry, Brent, author.

Series:

The Society Post-Medieval Archaeology ; Volume 45, Part 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--History.

Archaeology.

Bermuda Islands--History--Sources.

Bermuda Islands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2017].

Summary:

"This special issue ofPost-Medieval Archaeology, guest edited by Brent Fortenberry (Boston University) and Marley Brown III (The College of William and Mary), celebrates archaeology in Bermuda on the eve of the island's 400th anniversary. The volume presents the diverse nature of contemporary archaeological research on Bermuda, drawing together a wide array of scholars from the disciplines of archaeology, history, material culture studies, heritage and architectural history. The volume seeks to bring about a greater awareness of the island's archaeology and to explore its place within the historic and contemporary Atlantic world."

Contents:

chapter Bermuda's archaeology in context / Brent Fortenberry

chapter Archaeology in Bermuda / Richard Lowry

chapter The Western Ledge Reef Wreck: continuing research on the late 16th-/early 17th-century Iberian shipwreck from Bermuda / Piotr Bojakowski

chapter The Warwick: results of the survey of an early 17th-century Virginia Company ship / Piotr Bojakowski

chapter Bermuda's ‘Domesday Book’: Richard Norwood's surveys and the development of the Somers Islands, 1616-63 / Michael Jarvis

chapter Ships, slaves and slipways: towards an archaeology of shipbuilding in Bermuda / Paul Belford

chapter The Bermuda house / Edward A. Chappell

chapter ‘A brave cedar house’: landscape archaeology at the Overplus House and Grove / John R. Triggs

chapter A lost Bermuda Governor: George Bruere's burial in context / Brent Fortenberry

chapter Proclaiming respectability across the colour line: headstones of free blacks in St Peter's churchyard, St George's, Bermuda / Bruce S. Elliott

chapter Research Notes

chapter Concluding thoughts: looking to the future of archaeology in Bermuda / Brent Fortenberry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 3, 2018).

ISBN:

1-351-19270-1

1-351-19271-X

1-351-19269-8

9781351192712

OCLC:

1011119333