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Summarises the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America.

Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology
  • Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods

    2. From Humus Mold to Stout Building: Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures

  • 3. Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited
  • 4. Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example
  • 5. Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital
  • Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
  • 6. The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures
  • 7. St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations
  • 8. "Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City
  • 9. Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland
  • 10. "The most bewitching Game": Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
  • 11. The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake
  • Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries
  • 12. The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community
  • 13. A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them
  • 14. The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City
  • 15. "Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary
  • 16. Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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      Publisher: University Press of Florida
      Publication Date: 30/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9780813066837, 978-0813066837
      ISBN10: 0813066832
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Summarises the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Figures
      • List of Tables
      • Acknowledgments
      • Foreword
      • 1. Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology
      • Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods

        2. From Humus Mold to Stout Building: Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures

      • 3. Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited
      • 4. Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example
      • 5. Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital
      • Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
      • 6. The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures
      • 7. St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations
      • 8. "Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City
      • 9. Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland
      • 10. "The most bewitching Game": Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City
      • 11. The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake
      • Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries
      • 12. The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community
      • 13. A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them
      • 14. The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City
      • 15. "Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary
      • 16. Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place
      • References
      • List of Contributors
      • Index

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