Overview: Lithic quarries in Pennsylvania: the archaeology of tool stone procurement

2021 ◽  
pp. 019769312110433
Author(s):  
Paul A. Raber
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
Middle Atlantic

This collection of papers, published in numbers 3 and 4 of this volume of North American Archaeologist, reflects recent research into the development of pre-contact period quarries in Pennsylvania and the surrounding Middle Atlantic region.

Exports from the Colonies and States of the Middle Atlantic Region 1720–1800

2013 ◽  
pp. 257-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Mancall ◽  
Joshua L. Rosenbloom ◽  
Thomas Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Region ◽  
Middle Atlantic

scholarly journals Introduction: Emerging Roles for Historical Medical Libraries

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle DiMeo ◽  
Jeffrey S. Reznick ◽  
Christopher Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
National Network ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
College Library ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Anniversary Celebration

On December 6, 2013, the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia convened, as part of its 225th Anniversary celebration, the symposium entitled “Emerging Roles for Historical Medical Libraries: Value in the Digital Age.” Sponsored in part by a Library Project Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region, this event offered a rare opportunity for librarians and researchers to discuss collectively the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital age.1The fact that the College Library chose to celebrate its past by hosting a conference centered on planning strategically for the future . . .

Measuring Sedentariness and Settlement Population: Accumulations Research in the Middle Atlantic Region

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Gallivan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Community Size ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
James River ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
A Site ◽  
Residential Settlement

Archaeologists have long sought to understand the relationships between the quantity and diversity of material that accumulates at a site and the variables of community size and occupation duration. This paper examines these relationships through an analysis of mobility and settlement population in the late precontact and early colonial Chesapeake region of the eastern U.S. Drawing on previous accumulations research and two “strong” archaeological cases that provide critical values, the study develops measures of relative sedentariness and ceramic-discard behavior that can be used to model behavior at sites without stratified deposits or well-preserved architecture. Application of this model to the James River Valley of Virginia produces more reliable dates for the inception of village communities, several centuries following the adoption of maize-based horticulture in the region. The analysis also suggests that the fundamental nature of residential settlement changed dramatically in the study area after A.D. 1200 with the emergence of a settlement hierarchy including relatively large communities with lengthy occupation durations. The creation of a new cultural landscape containing substantial villages, combined with related changes in household and community organization, is central to the origins and development of the Powhatan paramountcy, one of North America's archetypal complex chiefdoms.

Diverse Good Causes

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-370
Author(s):  
Whitman Stephen
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
European History ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
British America ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
History Of

In many slave societies manumission coexisted with perpetual bondage, often featured by self-purchase by slave artisans, a practice that some societies monitored through recognition of the slave's legal personality as a contracting party. Manumission played a comparatively minor role in shaping North American slavery, with debatable exceptions in the mid-Atlantic region; historians of slavery there have portrayed manumitters as individuals of conscience and/or economic maximizers seeking profitable exits from a locally declining labor institution. This contrast was first noted by Frank Tannenbaum, who characterized slavery in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking America as milder than in British America, and targeted differences in religion and in the European history of slavery of each society as key explanatory factors.

Dutch, Swedish, and English Elements in the Development of Pidgin Delaware

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Buccini
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Contact Language

This paper investigates the influence of Dutch, Swedish, and English on the syntax of Pidgin Delaware, a contact language used in the Middle Atlantic region in the seventeenth century. Arguments are presented against Thomason's (1980) view that the pidgin predated European contact; instead, the structures of the pidgin are viewed from the perspective of Dutch speakers attempting to learn the Delaware language. The theoretical framework of Van Coetsem 1988 is used to explain which Algonquian features were successfully acquired by the Dutch and where the Dutch imposed features from their native language in the early, formational stage of the pidgin. In addition, subsequent changes in Pidgin Delaware are attributed to its use by Swedish and English speakers.

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