The authors and their colleagues have recently carried out excavations at three 18th-century farm sites in central Delaware. The Augustine Creek South and Thomas Dawson Sites were both occupied by ordinary property owners in the 1730 to 1770 period. The Augustine Creek North Site was occupied from about 1750 to 1810 by unknown but probably poor tenants, possibly in two chronologically separate occupations. At all three sites, architectural remains and artifact deposits were found. Analysis of these sites has focused on the question of how fully ordinary and poor people participated in the social, economic, and intellectural changes of the 19th century. The answer seems to be that they did embrace some changes, such as tea drinking, but reje...
The literature on consumption has grown rapidly over the past thirty years and we now have a detaile...
This paper examines how certain landscapes were remade as places important in the collective memory ...
In keeping with all the colonies of British North America in the eighteenth century, New Jersey resi...
The authors and their colleagues have recently carried out excavations at three 18th-century farm si...
Many theorists see the eighteenth century as a time ofprofound change in European America. This pape...
Like our colleagues across the Northeast, Delaware archaeologists have been challenged by the state\...
To modern suburbanites, life on a farm may seem hopelessly boring or, alternatively, charming and id...
Social differences at domestic sites in the fortified town of Frederica (1736-1750) are explored thr...
The Tyngs were a wealthy family in Dunstable (now Tyngsborough), Massachusetts in the late- 17th and...
By the beginning of the 19th century the Methodist movement had gained so many converts in the state...
In the 18th and 19th centuries, taverns and inns were an important element in the early American soc...
Farming is typically associated with rural environments. The Dubois Site in Albany, New York, howeve...
Salvage excavations at the Johannes Luyster Farm (28Mo261) revleade extensive archaeological deposti...
Ceramics from the Keith Site, a farmstead in upstate New York, are principally expensive, early nine...
The consumer behaviour of the poor in the long eighteenth century has attracted more historical atte...
The literature on consumption has grown rapidly over the past thirty years and we now have a detaile...
This paper examines how certain landscapes were remade as places important in the collective memory ...
In keeping with all the colonies of British North America in the eighteenth century, New Jersey resi...
The authors and their colleagues have recently carried out excavations at three 18th-century farm si...
Many theorists see the eighteenth century as a time ofprofound change in European America. This pape...
Like our colleagues across the Northeast, Delaware archaeologists have been challenged by the state\...
To modern suburbanites, life on a farm may seem hopelessly boring or, alternatively, charming and id...
Social differences at domestic sites in the fortified town of Frederica (1736-1750) are explored thr...
The Tyngs were a wealthy family in Dunstable (now Tyngsborough), Massachusetts in the late- 17th and...
By the beginning of the 19th century the Methodist movement had gained so many converts in the state...
In the 18th and 19th centuries, taverns and inns were an important element in the early American soc...
Farming is typically associated with rural environments. The Dubois Site in Albany, New York, howeve...
Salvage excavations at the Johannes Luyster Farm (28Mo261) revleade extensive archaeological deposti...
Ceramics from the Keith Site, a farmstead in upstate New York, are principally expensive, early nine...
The consumer behaviour of the poor in the long eighteenth century has attracted more historical atte...
The literature on consumption has grown rapidly over the past thirty years and we now have a detaile...
This paper examines how certain landscapes were remade as places important in the collective memory ...
In keeping with all the colonies of British North America in the eighteenth century, New Jersey resi...