The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies

by Edited by Tim Murray

• ISBN13: 9780521792578
• ISBN10: 0521792576
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Several decades of research into the archaeology of contact in North America have laid the foundations for the global exploration of the archaeology of European colonization. It is significant, however, that archaeologists, unlike historians and geographers, have yet to develop a global account of contact and its consequences. This edited work presents case studies from nations developed from British settlement so as to allow historical archaeologists to examine differences and similarities between the histories of modern colonial societies world-wide. Written by an international team of experts, the work shows that historical archaeologies can assume marvellously different and suggestive forms when examined from the periphery. Furthermore, the imperatives of the periphery could result in different perspectives on North American and European archaeological contexts. The work also examines the role of a global vision of the historical archaeology of colonialism in providing a new basis for the evolution of the 'nation'.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	xii
List of contributors	xiii
The archaeology of contact in settler societies	1	(18)
Tim Murray
PART I DIVERSE CONTACTS AND CONSEQUENCES
Beads, bodies and regimes of value: from France to North America, c. 1500--c. 1650	19	(29)
Laurier Turgeon
Ships for the taking: culture contact and the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America	48	(30)
Steven Acheson
James P. Delgado
Culture contact viewed through ceramic petrography at the Pueblo mission of Abo, New Mexico	78	(13)
Patricia Capone
The transformation of indigenous societies in the south-western Cape during the rule of the Dutch East India Company, 1652--1795	91	(18)
Yvonne Brink
Contact archaeology and the landscapes of pastoralism in the north-west of Australia	109	(35)
Rodney Harrison
Tenacity of the traditional: the first hundred years of Maori--European settler contact on the Hauraki Plains, Aotearoa/New Zealand	144	(13)
Stuart Bedford
PART II ISSUES AND METHODS
Fur trade archaeology in western Canada: who is digging up the forts?	157	(19)
Olga Klimko
Contact archaeology and the writing of Aboriginal history	176	(24)
Christine Williamson
In the footsteps of George Dutton: developing a contact archaeology of temperate Aboriginal Australia	200	(26)
Tim Murray
Bibliography	226	(37)
Index	263