Bermuda: Celebrating 400 Years of History

ISBN-13: 9781907975196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 235 str.

Brent Fortenberry; III Marley Brown

Opis

This special issue of Post-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.

Spis treści

Articles: Bermuda's archaeology in context By Brent Fortenberry and Marley Brown III Archaeology in Bermuda By Richard M. Lowry The Western Ledge Reef Wreck: continuing research on the late 16th-/early 17th-century Iberian shipwreck from Bermuda By Piotr Bojakowski The Warwick: survey results of the early 17th-century Virginia Company ship By Piotr Bojakowski and Katie Custer Bojakowski Bermuda's 'Domesday Book': Richard Norwood's surveys and the development of the Somers Islands, 1616 - 63 By Michael Jarvis Ships, slaves and slipways: towards an archaeology of shipbuilding in Bermuda By Paul Belford The Bermuda house By Edward A. Chappell 'A brave cedar house': landscape archaeology at the Overplus House and Grove By John R. Triggs A lost Bermuda Governor: George Bruere's burial in context By Brent Fortenberry Proclaiming respectability across the colour line: headstones in St Peter's churchyard, St George's, Bermuda By Bruce S. Elliott Research Notes Geographical Information Systems and archaeology in Bermuda By Richard M. Lowry Lieutenant Thomas Hurd's Survey of Bermuda By Jessie Hallett Modelling St Peter's Church By Travis Parno The Casemate Barracks documentation project at the Royal Navy Dockyard, Bermuda By Wolfgang Neubauer, Matthias Kucera, Erich Nau, Karolin Kastowski and Klaus Locker Archaeology at Verdmont, an 18th-century Bermuda manor By Andrew M. Baylay and Zoe Brady Recent excavations at Whitehall, St George's By Jonathan Heck and Megan Southern Carving the exotic: confinement art in Bermuda By Deborah Atwood Concluding thoughts: looking to the future of archaeology in Bermuda By Brent Fortenberry and Marley Brown III

O autorze

Brent Fortenberry,