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Title Unearthing St. Mary's city : fifty years of archaeology at Maryland's first capital / edited by Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno ; foreword by William M. Kelso
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Contents Foreword / William M. Kelso -- Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology / Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno -- Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods -- From Humus Mold to Stout Building : Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures / Garry Wheeler Stone and Alexander H. Morrison II -- Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited / Silas D. Hurry and Robert Winston Keeler -- Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example / Ruth M. Mitchell and Henry M. Miller -- Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital / Silas D. Hurry -- Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City -- The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures / Henry M. Miller and Silas D. Hurry -- St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations / Ruth M. Mitchell, Henry M. Miller, and Garry Wheeler Stone -- "Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City, Maryland / Charles H. Fithian -- Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland / Wesley R. Willoughby -- "The most bewitching Game" : Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City / Travis G. Parno and Timothy B. Riordan -- The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake / Karin S. Bruwelheide, Henry M. Miller, Douglas W. Owsley and Timothy B. Riordan -- Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries -- The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community / Garry Wheeler Stone and Stephen S. Israel -- A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them / George L. Miller -- The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City / Terry Peterkin Brock -- "Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary / Michelle Sivilich, Travis G. Parno, Ruth M. Mitchell, and Donald L. Winter -- Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place / Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno
Summary "This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 31, 2022)
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Maryland -- Saint Marys City
Historic sites -- Maryland -- Saint Marys City
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Historic sites
SUBJECT Saint Marys City (Md.) -- History
Saint Marys City (Md.) -- Antiquities
Subject Maryland -- Saint Marys City
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Henry M. (Henry Michael), editor.
Parno, Travis G., editor.
Kelso, William M., writer of foreword.
LC no. 2020041065
ISBN 9780813067025
0813067022
9780813057767
0813057760