William A. Farley

Southern Connecticut State University | SCSU · Department of Anthropology

In southeastern Connecticut in the 19th century, many Native Americans resided on reservations in close proximity to European American communities. The Mashantucket Pequot, who lived on a government-controlled reservation during this period, and their European American neighbors both utilized forestland resources in their subsistence strategies. Th...

We compare domestic architectural features in New England and the Maritime Peninsula to investigate the relationship between the adoption of horticulture and its relationship to social and settlement change during the Woodland Period. Horticulture was not practiced on the Maritime Peninsula until after European contact, despite cultural and environ...

Southern Connecticut State University conducted its first year of excavations at the Henry Whitfield State Museum in Guilford, Connecticut in July, 2018. This research was a continuation of nearly fifty years of intermittent archaeological research at the Whitfield Museum property. The 2018 field season was spent exploring a previously uninvestigat...

Since 2012, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Mashantucket, Connecticut, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, has carried out a research program to survey and document the battlefields of the Pequot War (1636–1637). The unique nature of the project has required the refinement of the long-standing field methods of...

The primary goal of this dissertation is to explore the nature of cultural change and continuity during the earliest years of colonial interaction in southern New England. It will focus primarily on the Pequot, a Native American polity who in the early 17th-century controlled territories in present-day Connecticut and Rhode Island. The dissertation...

The primary goal of this dissertation is to explore the nature of cultural change and continuity during the earliest years of colonial interaction in southern New England. It will focus primarily on the Pequot, a Native American polity who in the early 17th-century controlled territories in present-day Connecticut and Rhode Island. The dissertation...

Mean ceramic dates offer historical archaeologists a powerful tool for establishing dates of historic period assemblages. However, a variety of social and economic factors may skew mean ceramic dates away from the true calendar dates of a given assemblage's use. Other archaeological and historical evidence may be employed to correct for this. Beyon...

Recent scholarship has revealed that colonial entanglements starting in the early seventeenth century forced New England's indigenous polities to renegotiate their modes of subsistence in order to maintain their group and individual identities. This paper explores the means by which one particular group shifted their economic strategies to meet new...

The nineteenth century was a time in which the Mashantucket and Eastern Pequots committed to their identity a new centrality of reservation lands. The period also saw their autonomy and sovereignty curtailed by a colonially imposed overseer system. With the granting of reservation lands the colony of Connecticut also assigned each tribe with a whit...

Southeastern Connecticut in the 19th century represented a setting in which Native Americans living on reservations were residing in close proximity to Euro-American communities. The Mashantucket Pequot, an indigenous group who in the 19th century resided on a state-overseen reservation, and their Euro-American neighbors both utilized local and reg...

Nineteenth Century Southeastern Connecticut represented a setting in which Native Americans living on reservations were residing in close proximity to Euro-American communities. This paper utilizes a comparative macrobotanical analysis to determine similarities and differences in subsistence strategies between two households, one located on the Mas...