Unearthing St. Mary's city : fifty years of archaeology at Maryland's first capital /

Unearthing St. Mary's city : fifty years of archaeology at Maryland's first capital / edited by Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno ; foreword by William M. Kelso.

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"This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America"--

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Miller, Henry M. (Henry Michael) (Editor), Parno, Travis G. (Editor), Kelso, William M. (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > Maryland > Saint Marys City.
Historic sites > Maryland > Saint Marys City.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Historic sites.
Saint Marys City (Md.) > History.
Saint Marys City (Md.) > Antiquities.
Maryland > Saint Marys City.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / William M. Kelso
  • Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology / Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno
  • Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods
  • From Humus Mold to Stout Building : Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures / Garry Wheeler Stone and Alexander H. Morrison II
  • Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited / Silas D. Hurry and Robert Winston Keeler
  • Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example / Ruth M. Mitchell and Henry M. Miller
  • Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital / Silas D. Hurry
  • Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
  • The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures / Henry M. Miller and Silas D. Hurry
  • St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations / Ruth M. Mitchell, Henry M. Miller, and Garry Wheeler Stone
  • "Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City, Maryland / Charles H. Fithian
  • Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland / Wesley R. Willoughby
  • "The most bewitching Game" : Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City / Travis G. Parno and Timothy B. Riordan
  • The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake / Karin S. Bruwelheide, Henry M. Miller, Douglas W. Owsley and Timothy B. Riordan
  • Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries
  • The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community / Garry Wheeler Stone and Stephen S. Israel
  • A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them / George L. Miller
  • The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City / Terry Peterkin Brock
  • "Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary / Michelle Sivilich, Travis G. Parno, Ruth M. Mitchell, and Donald L. Winter
  • Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place / Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno.

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