Out of many, one people
Subtitle: the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica
By: edited by James A. Delle, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas Armstrong
Series: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory; Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780817356484; 9780817385309; 9780817317263
Subjects: Material culture; Historic sites; Social life and customs; Local History; Antiquities; Plantation life; Slaves; Archaeology and history; Excavations (Archaeology); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Historical archaeology in Jamaica / Mark W. Hauser, James A. Delle, and Douglas V. Armstrong; title: pt. 1. The archaeology of the early colonial period; title: Feudalism or agrarian capitalism? : the archaeology of the early sixteenth-century Spanish sugar industry / Robyn P. Woodward; title: Port Royal and Jamaica : wrought-iron hand tools recovered as archaeological evidence and the material culture mentioned in probate inventories ca. 1692 / Marianne Franklin; title: Evidence for Port Royal's British colonial merchant class as reflected in the New Street Tavern Site assemblage / Maureen J. Brown; title: pt. 2. The archaeology of the plantation system; title: Reflections on Seville : rediscovering the African Jamaican settlements at Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay / Douglas V. Armstrong; title: Maritime connections in a plantation economy : archaeological investigations of a colonial sloop in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica / Gregory D. Cook and Amy Rubenstein-Gottschamer; title: The habitus of Jamaican plantation landscapes / James A. Delle; title: Excavating the roots of resistance : the significance of Maroons in Jamaican archaeology / Candice Goucher and Kofi Agorsah; title: pt. 3. The archaeology of Jamaican society; title: Of earth and clay : locating colonial economies and local ceramics / Mark W. Hauser; title: Household market activities among early nineteenth-century Jamaican slaves : an archaeological case study from two slave settlements / Matthew Reeves; title: Assessing the impacts of time, agricultural cycles, and demography on the consumer activities of enslaved men and women in eighteenth-century Jamaica and Virginia / Jillian E. Galle; title: Identity and opportunity in post-slavery Jamaica / Kenneth G. Kelly, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong; title: Epilogue: Explorations in Jamaican historical archaeology / Douglas V. Armstrong.