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Author:   Henry M. Miller ,  Travis G. Parno
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
Weight:   0.835kg
ISBN:  

9780813066837

ISBN 10:   0813066832
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   30 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Table of Contents

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 Methods2. 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

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Henry M. Miller is the Maryland Heritage Scholar at Historic St. Mary's City. Travis G. Parno, director of research and collections at Historic St. Mary's City, is coeditor of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement.

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