The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred : Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog / Audrey Noël Hume, Ivor Noël Hume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noël Hume, Ivor, author.

Noël Hume, Audrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Virginia--Williamsburg Region.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Plantation life--Virginia--Williamsburg Region--History--17th century.

Plantation life.

Williamsburg Region (Va.)--Biography.

Williamsburg Region (Va.).

Williamsburg Region (Va.)--Antiquities.

Wolstenholme Towne (Va.).

Carter's Grove (Va.).

Martin's Hundred Site (Va.).

Carter, Robert, 1663-1732--Homes and haunts--Virginia--Williamsburg Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (628 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred explores the history and artifacts of a 20,000-acre tract of land in Tidewater, Virginia, one of the most extensive English enterprises in the New World. Settled in 1618, all signs of its early occupation soon disappeared, leaving no trace above ground. More than three centuries later, archaeological explorations uncovered tantalizing evidence of the people who had lived, worked, and died there in the seventeenth century.Part I: Interpretive Studies addresses four critical questions, each with complex and sometimes unsatisfactory answers: Who was Martin? What was a hundred? When did it begin and end? Where was it located? We then see how scientific detective work resulted in a reconstruction of what daily life must have been like in the strange and dangerous new land of colonial Virginia. The authors use first-person accounts, documents of all sorts, and the treasure trove of artifacts carefully unearthed from the soil of Martin's Hundred.Part II: Artifact Catalog illustrates and describes the principal artifacts in 110 figures. The objects, divided by category and by site, range from ceramics, which were the most readily and reliably datable, to glass, of which there was little, to metalwork, in all its varied aspects from arms and armor to rail splitters' wedges, and, finally, to tobacco pipes.The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred is a fascinating account of the ways archaeological fieldwork, laboratory examination, and analysis based on lifelong study of documentary and artifact research came together to increase our knowledge of early colonial history.Copublished with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents of Part I

List of Illustrations

List of Plates

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Who, What, When, and Where of Martin's Hundred

Chapter 2. The People of Martin's Hundred: The Physical Evidence

Chapter 3. Where They Lived, Worked, Fenced, and Sometimes Hid

Chapter 4. Arms and Armor in Martin's Hundred

Chapter 5. Of Pots and Pertinence

Chapter 6. The Small Finds

Chapter 7. The Glass

Chapter 8. The Tobacco Pipes

Chapter 9. The Pits

Postscript

Fronttmatter2

Contents of Part II

List of Figures

User's Introduction

Appendix I. Faunal Analyses

Appendix II. Index of Illustrated Tobacco-pipe Marks

Appendix III. Cited Excavation Register Entries

Appendix IV. Ceramic Nomenclature

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [589]-600)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-5128-1971-9

OCLC:

953847781