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Historical Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Historical Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram
ISBN: 9780813069050

Lessons from Colonial Williamsburg

Edited by Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram and Andrew C. Edwards

Published by: University Press of Florida

Offering an in-depth look at historical archaeology, public history, and reconstruction in Colonial Williamsburg, this volume provides state-of-the-art examples of how the discipline can be used to inform, engage, and educate.

334 Pages6.00 × 9.0065 b/w illustrations, 3 tables

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Published: November 16, 2021

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This volume is the first to offer an in-depth look at historical archaeology, public history, and reconstruction in Williamsburg through a comprehensive range of sites, topics, and analyses. Uniquely combining a historical landscape and a large town-museum complex, Colonial Williamsburg has deeply influenced the discipline for 100 years through one of the nation’s longest continuously running archaeological conservation programs.

Historical Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century illuminates the town’s history as an early capital of the Virginia Colony and home to the College of William & Mary. In the 1700s, Williamsburg was a center of political, cultural, and commercial life where people of African, European, and Native American descent interacted regularly. The case studies in this volume cover topics including animal husbandry, the oyster industry, architectural reconstruction, window leads, and an apothecary’s display skeleton. Contributors draw attention to the interactions between enslaved and free communities as well as African American burial practices.

Using exemplary approaches and methodologies, this volume addresses key concerns in the field such as amplifying voices of the African diaspora, the development of ethically sound inclusive archaeologies, the value of environmental analyses, and the advantages of virtual models. The research highlighted here provides state-of-the-art examples of how historical archaeology can be used to inform, engage, and educate.

Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram, assistant professor in the Department of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University, was a staff archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg for nearly twenty-five years. She is the author of The Art and Soul of African American Interpretation. Andrew C. Edwards (1949‒2021) was a staff archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg for over thirty years.

“This exciting volume highlights the ongoing quality, breadth, and innovative nature of archaeological research at Colonial Williamsburg, making it clear that Williamsburg practitioners continue to lead the field in exploring and demonstrating the value of genuinely innovative, multisource, and multivocal approaches to interpreting the past.”—Audrey Horning, author of Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
“Archaeologists working at Williamsburg have played a fundamental role in the development of the field of historical archaeology, as well as in the public development of historical and archaeological resources. This volume provides a much-needed addition to the discipline’s knowledge of the research that has been undertaken there.”—Lisa Kealhofer, coeditor of Bioarchaeology of Native American Adaptation in the Spanish Borderlands

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

A Word about the Maps

Introduction
Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram and Andrew C. Edwards

Part 1. Historical and Archaeological Overviews

Chapter 1. From Middle Plantation to Modern Metropolis: Evolution and Change
Martha W. McCartney

Chapter 2. Town and Gown Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg
Mark Kostro

Chapter 3. Discovering What Counts: Ninety Years of Archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg
Meredith M. Poole and Patricia M. Samford

Part 2. Environmental, Biological, and Economic Studies

Chapter 4. Domesticating the Chesapeake Landscape
Joanne Bowen

Chapter 5. “To be SOLD, for ready money”: Reconstructing Patterns of Human Predation, Marketing, and Oyster Exploitation
Dessa E. Lightfoot, Stephen C. Atkins, and Irvy R. Quitmyer

Chapter 6. “Useful Ornaments to His Cabinet”: Analysis of Anatomical Study and Display in Colonial Williamsburg
Ellen Chapman

Chapter 7. Architectural Reconstruction and the Importance of a Name
Andrew C. Edwards

Part 3. Community, Neighborhood, and Identity

Chapter 8. From Household to Neighborhood: Toward a Community-Oriented Archaeological Approach in the Plantation Chesapeake
Jason Boroughs

Chapter 9. Reconstructing the Landscape of African and African American Burials and Commemorations in Williamsburg, Virginia
Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram

Part 4. Standards, Practices, and Goals in Conservation and Reconstruction

Chapter 10. Framing the Questions That Matter: The Relationship between Archaeology and Conservation
Emily Williams

Chapter 11. A Diachronic Study of Window Leads from Williamsburg
Kelly Ladd-Kostro

Chapter 12. A Virtual Williamsburg: Contextualizing Archaeological Data within a Virtual Environment
Peter A. Inker

Afterword
Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram and Andrew C. Edwards

Appendix: Colonial Williamsburg Conserved Window Leads, 1997–2019

Works Cited

List of Contributors

Index

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Lessons from Colonial Williamsburg

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