Unearthing St. Mary's City: Fifty Years of Archaeology at Maryland's First Capital

ISBN-13: 9780813066837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 366 str.

Henry M. Miller; Travis G. Parno

Spis treści

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology
• Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods

  2. From Humus Mold to Stout Building: Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures

• 3. Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited
• 4. Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example
• 5. Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital
• Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
• 6. The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures
• 7. St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations
• 8. "Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City
• 9. Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland
• 10. "The most bewitching Game": Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
• 11. The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake
• Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries
• 12. The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community
• 13. A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them
• 14. The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City
• 15. "Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary
• 16. Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index