UID:
almafu_9961152568902883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
0-8130-6702-2
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0-8130-6683-2
Series Statement:
Florida scholarship online
Content:
This volume summarises 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 this book 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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8130-5776-0
Language:
English
