Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
ArmstrongDouglas V, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
HauserMark W, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
DelleJames A, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Tuscaloosa |
Published: |
University of Alabama Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
Description: |
1 online resource (x, 332 p.)ill., maps. : |
Series: |
Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory |
Subject: |
Slaves - Social life and customs - Jamaica - |
Subject: |
Plantation life - History - Jamaica - |
Subject: |
Material culture - History - Jamaica - |
Subject: |
Historic sites - Jamaica - |
Subject: |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Jamaica - |
Subject: |
Archaeology and history - Jamaica - |
Subject: |
Jamaica - Social life and customs - |
Subject: |
Jamaica - History, Local - |
Subject: |
Jamaica - Antiquities - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817385309/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9780817385309electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0817385304electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780817356484pbk. |
ISBN: |
0817356487pbk. |
ISBN: |
9780817317263hbk. |
ISBN: |
0817317260hbk. |
Content Note: |
Introduction: Historical archaeology in Jamaica / Mark W. Hauser, James A. Delle, and DouglasV. Armstrong -- pt. 1. The archaeology of theearly colonial period -- Feudalism or agrarian capitalism? : the archaeology of the early sixteenth-century Spanish sugar industry / Robyn P.Woodward -- Port Royal and Jamaica : wrought-iron hand tools recoveredas archaeological evidence and the materialculture mentioned in probate inventories ca. 1692 / Marianne Franklin -- Evidence for Port Royal's British colonial merchant class as reflected in the New Street TavernSite assemblage / Maureen J. Brown -- pt. 2. The archaeology of the plantation system -- Reflections on Seville : rediscovering theAfrican Jamaican settlements at Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay / Douglas V. Armstrong -- Maritime connections in a plantation economy : archaeological investigations of a colonial sloop in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica / Gregory D. Cook and Amy Rubenstein-Gottschamer -- The habitus of Jamaican plantation landscapes / James A. Delle -- Excavating the roots of resistance : the significance of Maroons in Jamaican archaeology / Candice Goucher and Kofi Agorsah -- pt. 3. The archaeology of Jamaican society -- Of earth and clay : locating colonial economies and local ceramics / Mark W. Hauser -- Household market activities among early nineteenth-century Jamaican slaves : an archaeological case study from two slave settlements / Matthew Reeves -- Assessing the impacts of time, agricultural cycles, and demography on the consumer activities of enslaved men and women in eighteenth-century Jamaica andVirginia / Jillian E. Galle -- Identity and opportunity in post-slavery Jamaica / Kenneth G. Kelly,Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong -- Epilogue: Explorations in Jamaican historical archaeology / Douglas V. Armstrong |