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(0)John M. Chenoweth
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Florida Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The author uses archaeological and archival information to reveal the everyday life of this group of Quakers residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. He traces this discreet group of mostly poor, white planters settled on Tortola in the community of Little Jost van Dyke from the earliest documented appearance in the 1740 records, through the final census--which showed only five enslaved inhabitants remaining in the community.
Publisher
Society for Historical Archaeology
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first part of Volume I includes a guide to further research, a new Primer on Historic Ceramics, discussions of the lifecourse of objects as they are used and reused, fragmentation and "missing" artifacts, and central information on dating. Part two presents methods of analysis unique to historical archaeology, such as Binford's Pipe Stem Dating or South's Mean Ceramic Dating formulas in their original forms (updates are discussed in chapter one),...