The life and death of a home: House history in a subsurface feature

Steven N. Archer; Kevin M. Bartoy; Charlotte L. Pearson

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-34219-1_5

The life and death of a home: House history in a subsurface feature

Steven N. Archer, Kevin M. Bartoy, Charlotte L. Pearson

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors take a high resolution multi-evidentiary approach to examine a single stratified feature from a seventeenth-century house lot in meticulous detail. In doing so, the possibility of interpreting detailed issues of site, structure and landscape are demonstrated; far beyond the capabilities of a standard, rote artifact analysis of the same feature. It is argued that in such contexts weighing alternative data categories, such as botanical and micromorphological evidence, equally with conventionally-recorded artifact and stratigraphic evidence, can yield detailed new lines of inquiry and far more rigorous interpretations.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Between Dirt and Discussion
Subtitle of host publication	Methods, Methodology, and Interpretation in Historical Archaeology
Publisher	Springer US
Pages	81-113
Number of pages	33
ISBN (Print)	0387342184, 9780387342184
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34219-1_5
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Archaeobotany
Chesapeake
Historical archaeology
Landscape change
Methodology
Microstratigraphy
Paleoethnobotany
Phytoliths
Root cellars
Seventeenth century
Soil micromorphology
Stratigraphic analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
General Arts and Humanities

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