Date of Award
1-1-2017
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Anthropology
First Advisor
Lawrence B. Conyers, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Esteban Gomez
Third Advisor
Adam Rovner
Keywords
Agency, Colonial Connecticut, Geophysical methods, Ground-penetrating radar, Landscape, Magnetometry
Abstract
The focus of this research is the ways in which interactions between Indigenous peoples and English settler-colonists were manifested in the landscape at a seventeenth-century site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. Magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar allowed for the location of anthropogenic and geological features on the landscape, and for the seventeenth-century landscape to be recreated. This reconstruction indicated that Europeans and Indigenous peoples may have been cohabitating the site. Archival research helped to uncover what types of interactions may have been occurring at the site. Excavations uncovered "Indigenous" artifacts in a "European" context, leading to the reconsideration of the prevailing perspectives on culture change in the region. All of these data led to the examination of the nuanced relationships that were fostered between Indigenous peoples and English settler-colonists during the first decades of colonialism in the Connecticut River Valley.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Maeve E. Herrick
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
194 p.
Recommended Citation
Herrick, Maeve E., "An Integrated Archaeological Investigation of Colonial Interactions at a Seventeenth-Century New England Site" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1284.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1284
Copyright date
2017
Discipline
Archaeology