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The Archaeology of New Netherland

A World Built on Trade

Edited by Craig Lukezic and John P. McCarthy

Published by: University Press of Florida

This volume illuminates the influence of the Dutch empire in North America, assembling evidence from seventeenth-century settlements located in present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

322 Pages6.00 × 9.0054 b/w illus., 15 tables, references, index

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Uncovering the material culture of Dutch colonization in North America

The Archaeology of New Netherland illuminates the influence of the Dutch empire in North America, assembling evidence from seventeenth-century settlements located in present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Archaeological data from this important early colony has often been overlooked because it lies underneath major urban and industrial regions, and this collection makes a wealth of information widely available for the first time.

Contributors to this volume begin by discussing the global context of Dutch colonization and reviewing typical Dutch material culture of the time as seen in ceramics from Amsterdam households. Next, they focus on communities and activities at colonial sites such as forts, trading stations, drinking houses, and farms. The essays examine the agency and impact of Indigenous people and enslaved Africans, particularly women, in the society of New Netherland, and they trace interactions between Dutch settlers and Europeans from other colonies including New Sweden. The volume also features landmark studies of cooking pots, marbles, tobacco pipes, and other artifacts.

The research in this volume offers an invitation to investigate New Netherland with the same sustained rigor that archaeologists and historians have shown for English colonialism. The many topics outlined here will serve as starting points for further work on early Dutch expansion in America.

Craig Lukezic is cultural resource manager at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. John P. McCarthy is senior environmental specialist, Cultural Resources, at the Delaware Department of Transportation.

“An in-depth and important new look at the rich culture of Dutch America as revealed through the practice of historical archaeology.”—Charles E. Orser Jr., author of The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America
“Presenting wide-ranging overviews and case studies, this book fills a huge gap in the historical archaeology of early America and presents fascinating glimpses of the new North American world the Dutch made through trade.”—Mary C. Beaudry, coeditor of The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies

“A major contribution to the archaeology of the region, with chapters that cover a wide variety of topics—from the mundane (marbles), to the curious (wolf traps), to the magisterial (Fort New Gothenburg and the Printzhof). It should be on the bookshelves of all scholars working in this region.”—American Antiquity

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Craig Lukezic and John P. McCarthy

Section I. The Setting the Stage

1. Why the Dutch? The Historical Context of New Netherland

Charles Gehring

2. Between Trade and Tradition: Household Ceramic Assemblages from Amsterdam in the Age of Early Modern Globalization

Marijn Stolk

Section II. The North River

3. Finding New Netherland in New Jersey: Retrospect and Prospect

Ian Burrow

4. Quamhemesicos (Van Schaick) Island: Archeological and Historical Evidence of European-Mahican Interactions at the Twilight of Dutch Colonialism in New York

Adam Luscier and Matthew Kirk

5. A Mid-Seventeenth Century Drinking House in New Netherland

Michael T. Lucas and Kristina S. Traudt

6. A Synthesis of Dutch Faunal Remains Recovered from Seventeenth Century Sites in the Albany Region

Marie-Lorraine Pipes

7. Woman the Trader: Native Women in New Netherland

Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall

Section III. The South River

8. Tamecongh/Aresapa to New Castle

Lu Ann De Cunzo

9. Resetting the Starting Point: Archaeological Investigations of Fort Casimir in New Castle

Wade P. Catts and Craig Lukezic