This is the first detailed archeological analysis of the Davis Site (44LA46), located on the Eastern Branch of the Corrotoman River in Lancaster County, Virginia. The goal of the study was to date the site' s colonial occupation using historical archeological methods. Plow zone surface collections, which were dominated by clay tobacco pipe fragments, formed the basis of the study. The very complete courthouse records in Lancaster County permitted an integrated historical archeological approach to dating the site. The timing of colonial occupation was determined using five independent approaches. The first three were based on archeological artifacts: (1) pipe stem bore diameters calculated a mean date of 1674, (2) pipe bowl shapes indicated a mean date of 1696, and (3) pipe makers' marks suggested a mean date of 1675. The last two were based on historical documents: (1) courthouse records and (2) tithable rolls which indicated mean dates of 1686 and 1687, respectively. The historical records indicate the site was occupied by the Thomas Buckley family. The archeological data and the historical data closely matched, resulting in a mean date for the colonial occupation of the Davis Site of 1684, with a maximum range of 1650-1718.
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2014, Northeast Historical Archaeology
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The Acts of John
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This is a review of what is quite possibly the most thorough of the many books on the early years of the Creek confederation.
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2012, Tennessee Archaeology
Archaeological components dating to the Paleoindian and Early Archaic periods (>8000 rcybp) are relatively rare in the southeastern United States. However, the Middle Cumberland River contains several previously reported stratified sites dating to this time period. Here, we provide a preliminary description of one of these sites (Sanders #1, 40CH193), where lithic material, charcoal fragments, and a probable hearth feature were found eroding out of the shoreline of the Cumberland River 4.0 to 4.5 meters below ground surface. A radiocarbon date derived from this feature (AA96399; 9412 ± 54 14C yr BP; 10,649 ± 88 cal yr BP) indicates it is Early Archaic in age and may be associated with the Lost Lake and Kirk Corner–Notched bifaces recovered from the shoreline lag deposits. Other temporally diagnostic Paleoindian and Early Archaic artifacts were also recovered from the shoreline lag deposits, thus making a direct association between the radiocarbon date and the corner-notched bifac.
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2014, Northeast Historical Archaeology
The John Hallowes site (44WM6) in Westmoreland County, Virginia was excavated between July 1968 and August 1969 by the Archeological Society of Virginia and the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. No report of the excavations was completed at that time, although an article summarizing the findings was published in Historical Archaeology in 1971 dating the site's occupation from the 1680s to 1716. From 2010 to 2012, a systematic reanalysis of the site, features, history, and artifacts was conducted by archaeologists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Benefiting from nearly 40 years of advances in Chesapeake archaeology, the reanalysis has challenged accepted dates for the site’s occupation, which is now placed at 1647-1681. In this article, we will discuss the multiple lines of evidence in support of the newly interpreted date range.
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2007, American Anthropologist
Colonial encounters within the Powhatan village of Werowocomoco in Tidewater Virginia have captured the public’s imagination through romantic literature and popular films. Shifting the focus of inquiry away from English colonial narratives and toward a history of landscape provides an alternative understanding of Werowocomoco as a Native place. Archaeological investigation has identified evidence of earthworks and related social practices that altered Werowocomoco’s built environment and subjective experiences of its spaces in ways that colonial chroniclers failed to appreciate. A landscape history combining built environments, cognitive maps,and spatial practices across the historic–precontact divide indicates that the settlement became a ritualized location for the production of political status and social personhood well before English colonization in the Chesapeake. Spatial practices rooted in Algonquian cosmology and centered on Werowocomoco shaped the origins of the Powhatan chiefdom and early colonial history through which Powhatans sought to incorporate Jamestown colonists into their world. A biography of Werowocomoco as a Native place illustrates how a deep historical anthropology may challenge notions of a “prehistoric” past comprised of homogenized societies lacking history. [Keywords: historical anthropology, colonial encounters, landscape archaeology, chiefdoms,
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