Jon Marcoux

• Clemson University

Colonoware—a low-fired earthenware pottery made by enslaved African and enslaved and free Indigenous potters across the Lowcountry region of South Carolina—is a clear material consequence of colonial-identity formation. This process certainly involved African and Indigenous groups, but it also drew in English, French, and Spanish colonial powers, a...

The last decade has seen a relatively quiet revolution happening within historic preservation. The field experienced a steady increase in digital technologies to document the historic built environment. Many practitioners now have access to a suite of documentation methodologies that employ digital-based equipment and software (e.g., light detectio...

Not long ago, our “historical” narratives concerning seventeenth- and eighteenth-century southeastern Indian communities read like colonial maps with neatly depicted “Tribal” territories and towns. Like those maps, the narratives presented a timeless “history” for groups whose identities were rooted to specific locations. This chapter traces a shif...

Colonoware, a low-fired earthenware made by enslaved Africans, African Americans, and Native Americans, is a crucial source for exploring the formation and materialization of colonial identities. Yet, the origins and ethnic associations of this enigmatic colonial potting tradition have long been debated. Recent ethnographic studies of African ceram...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of a number of exploratory statistical techniques that can be employed to recognize, interpret, and present patterns in multivariate datasets. This technique is ideal for exploring continuous measurement‐based data associated with artifact morphology, elemental composition, and spatiotemporal contexts, part...

The post–Civil War decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries are the period most commonly associated with the origins of industrialization in the southeastern United States. Recently, however, researchers working in Edgefield, South Carolina, have presented compelling archaeological evidence for the industrial production of stoneware, much of it...

A set of artifacts, apparently associated with human remains (one tooth), from Pine Island, Alabama, was donated to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in 1915. In preparation for repatriation, this collection was investigated extensively by a volunteer team. This paper reports the results of this analysis, focusing especially on a new type...

The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade. Nassaney Michael S. . 2015. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 280 pp. $69.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6157-3. - Volume 81 Issue 4 - Jon Bernard Marcoux

The material remains of daily subsistence within Cherokee communities reflect strategies that households enacted while adapting to disruptions associated with European colonialism. Plant subsistence remains dating from the late Pre-Contact period through the end of the Revolutionary War (A.D. 1300-1783) reveal how Cherokee food producers/collectors...

The study of glass trade beads has contributed much to our chronological understanding of the colonial period in the Eastern Woodlands of North America. Indeed, this class of artifact has allowed archaeologists to identify and conduct research at important archaeological sites that never appeared in the European historical record. In the Southeast,...

The late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. Indeed, between the founding of the Charles Town colony along the south Atlantic coast in 1670 and the outbreak of the Yamasee War in 1715, disease, warfare, and massive population displacements dramatically altered the soci...

The "Prestige Goods Economy" model was created to explain ]he rise of political complexity as the result of elite strategies to control access to exotic, finely crafted display goods. This concept is so ingrained in our current understandings of social, economic, and political life in Mississippian chiefdoms that it has become part of the very defi...