Conflict and Commerce: Maritime Archaeological Site Distribution as Cultural Change on the Roanoke River, North Carolina

Price, Franklin H.; Richards, Nathan

doi:10.1007/bf03376770

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“…This idea includes all definitions of a cultural site, including archaeological remains, place naming, and water-based activities. The idea of an MCL is clearly very broad, and some recent archaeological examples of this study can include the physical structures that line waterways, such as wharves and docks (Beard, 1996; Rogers, 2013), ship wrecks and ship graveyards (Price and Richards, 2009; Richards, 2008), and even the distribution of settlements (Carter, 2012; Rogers, 2012). One of the goals of the MCL investigator is to connect activities on the land with those that occur on water, acknowledging that the water is not a human’s natural habitat, but instead signals an adaptation for its existence and therefore cannot be viewed in isolation from the culture that created it.…”

Section: Waterways and The Built Environmentmentioning

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“…Three of the wharf sites and the potential barge site are located on Wambaw Creek and correspond with the waterfront of Wambaw plantation depicted on an 1809 map. The potential barge site appears to be pushed off to the side of the riverbank, which may have been a deliberate discard process (see for example: Price and Richards, 2009; Richards, 2008).…”

Section: A Social Archaeology Of the Maritime Cultural Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

Schwalbe

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Navigable waterways were essential to European colonization of the South Carolina Lowcountry beginning in the late 17th century. Despite early attempts by colonial leaders to keep land grants within close proximity to Charleston, colonists quickly began to establish plantations where the land was amenable for commodity production and scattered throughout the region. Consequently, colonists and enslaved individuals utilized navigable waterways by extending the built environment into the water through wharves, landings, and watercraft, as well as modifying the waterways themselves for irrigation, agriculture, and mobility. Despite the importance of waterways in the function of plantations, most landscape studies have focused on terrestrial contexts. This paper proposes that waterway assemblages should be integrated into plantation landscape studies as a means of understanding the role of movement in commodity production, surveillance, and communication to better reconstruct everyday life, focusing on the preliminary remote sensing fieldwork of two antebellum plantation waterfronts as case studies.

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Section: Waterways and The Built Environmentmentioning

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Section: A Social Archaeology Of the Maritime Cultural Landscapementioning

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Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

Schwalbe

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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My father put them up there: Anthropogenic environmental change associated with abandoned river vessels in the Clarence River, NSW, Australia

Duncan

Gibbs

Thoms

et al. 2023

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The Clarence River (New South Wales, Australia) was the main transport corridor for the timber and sugar cane industries operating in the catchment from the 1860s to the 1970s. Using archaeological, documentary, and oral historical resources we explore some of the anthropogenic impacts of these industries upon the fluvial geomorphology of the lower Clarence River. In particular, the deliberate abandonment of obsolete vessels on the river system is a focus. These discarded former cane and timber barges have been used as erosion control devices in several areas around the Harwood Island sugar mill, resulting in the accumulation of sediments and the establishment of mangrove environments in what were degraded areas.

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The Physical Environment of Underwater Cultural Heritage

Browne¹,

Raff²

2022

International Law of Underwater Cultural Heritage

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Conflict and Commerce: Maritime Archaeological Site Distribution as Cultural Change on the Roanoke River, North Carolina

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

My father put them up there: Anthropogenic environmental change associated with abandoned river vessels in the Clarence River, NSW, Australia

The Physical Environment of Underwater Cultural Heritage

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