Author: Lenore Santone
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Author: Richard Veit
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572339977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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The Delaware Valley is a distinct region situated within the Middle Atlantic states, encompassing portions of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. With its cultural epicenter of Philadelphia, its surrounding bays and ports within Maryland and Delaware, and its conglomerate population of European settlers, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans, the Delaware Valley was one of the great cultural hearths of early America. The region felt the full brunt of the American Revolution, briefly served as the national capital in the post-Revolutionary period, and sheltered burgeoning industries amidst the growing pains of a young nation. Yet, despite these distinctions, the Delaware Valley has received less scholarly treatment than its colonial equals in New England and the Chesapeake region. In Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600–1850, Richard Veit and David Orr bring together fifteen essays that represent the wide range of cultures, experiences, and industries that make this region distinctly American in its diversity. From historic-period American Indians living in a rapidly changing world to an archaeological portrait of Benjamin Franklin, from an eighteenth-century shipwreck to the archaeology of Quakerism, this volume highlights the vast array of research being conducted throughout the region. Many of these sites discussed are the locations of ongoing excavations, and archaeologists and historians alike continue to debate the region’s multifaceted identity. The archaeological stories found within Historical Archeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600–1850 reflect the amalgamated heritage that many American regions experienced, though the Delaware Valley certainly exemplifies a richer experience than most: it even boasts the palatial home of a king (Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon and former King of Naples and Spain). This work, thoroughly based on careful archaeological examination, tells the stories of earlier generations in the Delaware Valley and makes the case that New England and the Chesapeake are not the only cultural centers of colonial America.

Author: Edward J. Lenik
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651970
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Located along rivers, at the edges of lakes, on mountain boulders, in rock shelters, on rock ledges where the continent meets the ocean, and tucked into parks and public places, American Indian rock art offers tantilizing glimpses of the signs and symbols of a Native American culture. Picture Rocks documents all known permanent petroglyph and pictograph sites from the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the six New England states, New York, and New Jersey. Some sites are subject to disputes over their origins—Indian or Portuguese? Some are ancient, and others, such as the work of the Mi’kmaq, were executed in the past 200 years. Many of these sites are little known; others, like those at Bellows Falls, Vermont, are sources of great local pride and appear on city walking tours. Interspersing his own interpretations with comments from scholars and Native American storytellers, Edward J. Lenik provides a definitive look at an extraordinary art form. Two hundred illustrations include historic sketches by early Euro-American colonists, nineteenth-century photographs, and recent photographs and drawings of the current conditions of many sites.

Author: Jordan E. Kerber
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803278179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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A unique anthology that showcases vividly the pitfalls and successes of collaboration between Native peoples and archaeologists in the northeastern United States.

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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Ilene Grossman-Bailey
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Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Archaeological Society of New Jersey
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
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Category : Belle Creek (Minn. : Township)
Languages : en
Pages : 1266

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Author: Mary Helen Alicia Dolman Stapleton
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Category : Begbroke (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: William Henry Duignan
Publisher: London : H. Frowde
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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