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In Small Things Forgotten James Deetz

In Small Things Forgotten James Deetz. Historical Archaeology : The archaeology of the spread of European cultures throughout the world since the fifteenth century, and their impact on and interaction with the cultures of indigenous peoples. (Deetz, p.5 ). Academic architecture.

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In Small Things Forgotten James Deetz

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  1. In Small Things ForgottenJames Deetz

  2. Historical Archaeology:The archaeology of the spread of European cultures throughout the world since the fifteenth century, and their impact on and interaction with the cultures of indigenous peoples.(Deetz, p.5)

  3. Academic architecture

  4. Chesapeake Earthfast architectureUtopia House, Kingsmill Plantation, VA

  5. Reconstructions of Earthfast architecture

  6. Worldview What was in the mind of the makers of past artifacts becomes realized in the artifacts themselves So we want to reconstruct not only the activities that produced the artifacts and assemblages we find, but the mental structures that made the artifacts meaningful

  7. Colonial Virginia & Flowerdew Hundred Plantation 1619 to present Gov Yeardley Medieval vs. modern plantation

  8. Archaeology at Flowerdew Hundred20 previously undocumented sites dating between 1619 & 1800

  9. Colonial clay tobacco pipes

  10. Distribution of tobacco pipe bore sizes at Flowerdew Hundred 1619-1800

  11. Tobacco histories Group 3 1700-1800 Revival of tobacco: Re-Anglicization/ Modernization Group 2 1630-1700 Tobacco decline, localization Group 1 1619-1660 Tobacco boomers, impermanence

  12. Earthfast architecture • Phase 1. Tobacco Boomers, 1615-1660 • High demand/low supply for tobacco • Cheap, available land • Good climate for tobacco • Slow navigable rivers: low transport cost • Enclosures in England: push factor • Negatives: • Hard work, expensive labor • Harsh Chesapeake environment

  13. Early colonial Virginia

  14. Iron Bloomer Site at Flowerdew Hundrednote stone foundation • Phase 2. Creole Diversification, 1660-1700 • Drop in tobacco prices: European conflicts • Slowed immigration • Abandonment of early sites, larger tracts sold off/ subdivided • 1st generation American born: separated from English roots, no desire to return • Diversification: • Agriculture & industry • Localization of community • Navigation Acts

  15. Phase 1 and 2: Peasant cultures • workers of the land – non-urban, non-bourgeois • control their own labor • conservative, traditional cultural values • kin-based, corporate communities • localized and suspicious of outsiders • routines regulated by seasons and organic agrarian processes

  16. Colonoware vessel: Africans in America • Phase 3. Re-Anglicization/ Modernization, 1700-1800 • Revival of tobacco economy • Organization of the Atlantic world • Sharp increase in the number of enslaved Africans • - Simultaneously affordable and expensive • Class formation: planter-slave • First generation to not experience labor • educated, privileged • Rise of popular culture: Georgian • Contrast with medieval peasant culture

  17. The Atlantic World: a rationalization of commerce making a living vs. making a profit production — commodity — labor

  18. Medieval Culture Asymmetrical Corporate Labor of self Traditional Local Organic Georgian culture Balanced Individualized Labor of others Popular/Modern Global Ordered Structural oppositions

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