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This innovative collection of essays brings together archaeological research on French colonial sites from Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana to explore the nature of French colonization. Specific contributions explore foodways, ceramics, plantations, architecture, and colonial interactions with Africans and Native Americans, all with an eye to what makes the French colonial endeavor distinct from better-known British or Spanish experience.

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Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture's] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. -- Winterthur Portfolio

Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture's] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. -- Winterthur Portfolio Essential. --CHOICE Demonstrates that French colonial archaeology of the region is full of possibilities that are begging for research...[and] should lead to significant new investigations and discoveries. --American Archaeology Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture's] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. --Winterthur Portfolio Demonstrates that French colonial archaeology of the region is full of possibilities that are begging for research...[and] should lead to significant new investigations and discoveries. -- American Archaeology Essential. -- CHOICE

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Kenneth G. Kelly is professor of anthropology at the University of South Carolina, USA where he teaches historical archaeology and African archaeology. Meredith D. Hardy is an archaeologist with the National Park Service-Southeast Archeological Center.

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