Slavery Behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation

Theresa A. Singleton, "Slavery Behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation"


2015 | ISBN-10: 0813060729 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for interpreting these sites is a glaring void in slavery and plantation studies. Theresa Singleton helps to fill this gap with the presentation of the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation written by an English speaker. At Santa Ana de Biajacas, where the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall, Singleton explores how elite Cuban planters used the built environment to impose a hierarchical social order upon slave laborers. Behind the wall, slaves reclaimed the space as their own, forming communities, building their own houses, celebrating, gambling, and even harboring slave runaways. What emerged there is not just an identity distinct from other NorthAmerican and Caribbean plantations, but a unique slave culture that thrived despite a spartan lifestyle. SingletonAEs study provides insight into the larger historical context of the African diaspora, global patterns of enslavement, and the development of Cuba as an integral member of the larger Atlantic World.

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Historical Archaeology in Wachovia: Excavating Eighteenth Century Bethabara and Moravian Pottery (repost)

Historical Archaeology in Wachovia: Excavating Eighteenth Century Bethabara and Moravian Pottery by Stanley South


English | 1999 | ISBN: 0306456583 | 446 pages | PDF | 20 MB

Originally distributed with a different title as a very limited edition of twelve in 1975, Historical Archaeology in Wachovia presents a unique record of the 1753 Moravian town of Bethabara, near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Stanley South, who led the site"s excavation in 1966, fully describes such discoveries as fortifications from the French and Indian War and twenty ruins of various shops and dwellings in the town. He also illustrates methods of ruin excavation and stabilization, including the replacement of palisade posts in the original fort ditch as part of the site"s development as Historic Bethabara Park. Some of the most interesting of South"s finds concern the confluence of two traditions of pottery and stoneware production. One of these is represented by forty pottery wheel-thrown types and forms made by the master German potter Gottfried Aust between 1755 and 1771, excavated from the ruin of his shop and kiln waster dump. Additional work at both Bethabara and Salem recovered the waster dumps of Aust"s journeyman potter Rudolph Christ, who had also studied with the Staffordshire potter William Ellis. Christ"s wares, which demonstrate both German and English influences, are discussed in detail. Extensively documented and heavily illustrated with over 320 photographs, drawings, and maps, this volume — a classic example of the process of historical archaeology as demonstrated by one of its foremost practitioners in America — is a valuable resource for avocational archaeologists, particularly those living in the Southeast, as well as historical archaeologists, historians, ceramicists, ceramics collectors, students of colonial culture, and museologists.

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The Corvette in the Barn: More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology (repost)

Tom Cotter, "The Corvette in the Barn: More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology"


2010 | ISBN: 0760337977 | EPUB | 256 pages | 17 MB

It"s every car-guy"s fantasy—to casually peer into a long-forgotten garage or barn or warehouse and find the car he has searched for his whole life. Corvette in the Barn is a collection of true, often amazing, stories and essays about car collectors and enthusiasts who have discovered unusual and desirable cars, forgotten in all manner of locations from barns, to old-school junkyards, to farmer"s fields. These are the stories that fuel the dreams of car collectors everywhere.

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The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls & Related Literature) by Jodi Magness


English | 2002 | ISBN: 0802845894, 0802826873 | 284 pages | PDF | 17,7 MB

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most interesting and important archaeological discoveries ever made, and the excavation of the Qumran community itself has provided invaluable information about Judaism and the Jewish world in the last centuries B.C.E.




Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, however, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book meant to introduce general readers to this fascinating area of study, veteran archaeologist Jodi Magness here provides an overview of the archaeology of Qumran and presents an exciting new interpretation of this ancient community based on information found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary documents.




Magness"s work offers a number of fresh conclusions concerning life at Qumran. She agrees that Qumran was a sectarian settlement but rejects other unconventional views, including the view that Qumran was a villa rustica or manor house. By carefully analyzing the published information on Qumran, she refines the site"s chronology, reinterprets the purpose of some of its rooms, and reexamines the archaeological evidence for the presence of women and children in the settlement. Numerous photos and diagrams give readers a firsthand look at the site.




Written with an expert"s insight yet with a journalist"s spunk, this engaging book is sure to reinvigorate discussion of this monumental archaeological find.

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