A Taphonomic Evaluation of Three Intact Pork Barrels from the Steamboat Heroine (1838)

Brophy, Juliet K.; Crisman, Kevin

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“…In fact, new archival research suggests that pork products reaching Montréal may have come from as far away as Cincinnati (Ohio), which at the time was also sometimes known as "Porkopolis" as it was the chief hog packing city in the USA (McGlone and Pond 2003:6;Pate 2005:65. see also Brophy and Crisman 2014). This journey would have required more than 1000 miles of travel by the existing river, canal, and lock systems.…”

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Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from the William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia

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Nehlich

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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from the William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia

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Staniforth

Nehlich

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“…At least some of the meat consumed by French and Indian War soldiers was delivered in the form of salted and barreled pork (Cubbison 2010). Archaeologists have attempted to devise methods of identifying when barreled meat was used (e.g., Brophy & Crisman 2013). These methods have been recently formalized by Tourigny (2017) who relies upon a combination of element presence, and cut-mark placement.…”

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Roads and Military Provisioning During the French and Indian War (1754–1763): The Faunal Remains of Fort Shirley, PA in Context

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Early British generals faced serious challenges in delivering and storing sufficient provisions for 18 th century British soldiers and colonial militia. This analysis investigates the influence of developed road systems that facilitated delivery of provisions and resulted in distinctive dietary patterning. The comparison of faunal data from forts located on major road systems with frontier garrisons and associated Native American villages like Fort Shirley and Aughwick Old Town, a short-lived (1754-1756) French and Indian War frontier fortification in central Pennsylvania, indicates a significantly reduced reliance on domestic livestock at these more inaccessible locations. These results suggest that road infrastructure heavily influenced military provisioning, encouraged adaptation to frontier living through reliance on wild game, and resulted in varied dietary practices at military installations in eastern North America.

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“…For a comparison with contemporary livestock from the United States, we sourced baseline values from the literature (Reitsema et al 2015), which come from six urban eighteenth- to nineteenth-century sites in Charleston, South Carolina ( n = 27), and we also analyzed bones recovered from salt meat barrels on the steamboat Heroine ( n = 11), which was wrecked on the Red River in 1838 while transporting cargo from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Fort Towson, Oklahoma (Crisman et al 2013). These bones are mainly from intact salt-pork barrels packed by Alfred S. Reeder Packers of Cincinnati in 1837 (Brophy and Crisman 2013) and are representative of a key United States livestock region that produced salt meats that could have been traded north to Upper and Lower Canada via the Miami–Erie canal during the nineteenth century (Clemen 1923; Pate 2005; Skaggs 1986; Walsh 1977, 1982).…”

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Isotopic Analyses Reveal Geographical and Socioeconomic Patterns in Historical Domestic Animal Trade Between Predominantly Wheat- And Maize-Growing Agricultural Regions in Eastern North America

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Historical zooarchaeologists have made significant contributions to key questions about the social, economic, and nutritional dimensions of domestic animal use in North American colonial contexts; however, techniques commonly employed in faunal analyses do not offer a means of assessing many important aspects of how animals were husbanded and traded. We apply isotopic analyses to faunal remains from archaeological sites to assess the social and economic importance of meat trade and consumption of local and foreign animal products in northeastern North America. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of 310 cattle and pigs from 18 rural and urban archaeological sites in Upper Canada (present-day southern Ontario, Canada; ca. A.D. 1790–1890) are compared with livestock from contemporary American sources to quantify the importance of meat from different origins at rural and higher- and lower-status urban contexts. Results show significant differences between urban and rural households in the consumption of local animals and meat products acquired through long-distance trade. A striking pattern in urban contexts provides new evidence for the social significance of meat origins in historical Upper Canada and highlights the potential for isotopic approaches to reveal otherwise-hidden evidence for social and economic roles of animals in North American archaeology.

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A Taphonomic Evaluation of Three Intact Pork Barrels from the Steamboat Heroine (1838)

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from the William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia

Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from the William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia

Roads and Military Provisioning During the French and Indian War (1754–1763): The Faunal Remains of Fort Shirley, PA in Context

Isotopic Analyses Reveal Geographical and Socioeconomic Patterns in Historical Domestic Animal Trade Between Predominantly Wheat- And Maize-Growing Agricultural Regions in Eastern North America

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