Custom-Made Ceramics, Trans-Atlantic Business Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early Modern Newfoundland: An Examination of the SK Vessels from Ferryland

Gaulton, Barry C.; Casimiro, Tânia Manuel

doi:10.1007/s10761-014-0279-9

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“…In this context it is important to point out that the Pool Plantation served as an early capital, as well as hub of commerce and exchange, and that those who occupied its central mansion complex, the Kirke family, were not servant fishermen but, rather, elites with immense wealth and influence over the region. Archaeological evidence shows that members of this family were keen to display their affluence and elevated social status through the material culture they possessed (e.g., Gaulton and Casimiro 2015;Stoddart 2000;Tuck and Gaulton 2003). Another indication of wealth in seventeenth-century urban England was a capacity to live in, or at least occasionally visit, areas with unpolluted air (Cockayne 2008:206-229).…”

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Inferring Human Behaviors from Isotopic Analyses of Rat Diet: a Critical Review and Historical Application

Guiry

Gaulton

2015

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Rat (Rattus spp.) bone collagen stable isotope values are often assumed to reflect an average of food stuffs that were available to archaeological populations. This paper considers the feasibility of using stable isotope evidence from rat remains as a source of proxy information for human food-related social, economic, and sensorial behaviors. First, a literature review of archaeological and modern ecological rat isotope work reveals that, while rat dietary signatures are often a reasonable proxy for human food waste, they will not always record an unbiased average of foods which are available in a given environment. Second, an overview of ethological, biological, and environmental factors that can influence rat diets is given from the perspective of archaeological bone chemistry, to help identify factors that require explicit and critical consideration when rat stable isotope data is taken as a proxy for human food-related behaviors. Finally, rat stable isotope values are considered to provide new evidence about the social and economic responses of an important historical English fishing community at Ferryland (CgAf-02) to conflict and political turmoil at the turn of the eighteenth century. These results also highlight how information on rat diets can provide a counterpoint to other common faunal isotope approaches that focus on dogs and pigs as a proxy for human dietary behaviors.

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Inferring Human Behaviors from Isotopic Analyses of Rat Diet: a Critical Review and Historical Application

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Gaulton

2015

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…These bowls occur in contexts dated between 1575 and 1625, and are thus potentially older than the piece from Isle aux Morts. In North America, Portuguese majolica is found in seventeenth-century New England (Pendery, 1999) and, in Newfoundland, on English sedentary fishing stations in the eastern and northern Avalon Peninsula, as at Ferryland where it is abundant in the seventeenth century (Gaulton and Casimiro, 2015;Stoddart, 2000: 161-63). However, none of the decors reported on English colonial sites resembles the Isle aux Morts bowl.…”

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The Isle aux Morts Shipwreck: A Contribution to Seventeenth-Century Material Culture in Newfoundland

Dieulefet

2019

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“…These vessels, decorated with blue and purple lace or phytomorphic elements on the walls, have, at the centre of their wells, the letters ‘S.K.’. These could be another example of anonymous lettered faience, but they were found inside Lady Sarah Kirke's house, a prominent woman in the settlement, and are the first time Portuguese ceramics can be related to a specific person in the early modern period (Gaulton and Casimiro, forthcoming).…”

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A Late 17th‐Century Trade Cargo from Ponta do Leme Velho, Sal Island, Cape Verde

Gomes

Casimiro

Gonçalves

2014

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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In 1973, while recovering copper cargo from a 20th-century ship wrecked off the Ponta do Leme Velho on the south-east side of Sal Island, Cape Verde, explosives revealed an earlier ship cargo with dozens of Portuguese faience plates and bowls, glass beads and metal objects, including buckles, ammunition and copper manillas. The assemblage, including the ceramics and a marked silver tastevin, provide a site date between 1680 and 1700. The research presented here is a result of collaboration between CPAS and the authors in 2008 to analyse this assemblage in the context of late 17th-century maritime trade.

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Custom-Made Ceramics, Trans-Atlantic Business Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early Modern Newfoundland: An Examination of the SK Vessels from Ferryland

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Inferring Human Behaviors from Isotopic Analyses of Rat Diet: a Critical Review and Historical Application

Inferring Human Behaviors from Isotopic Analyses of Rat Diet: a Critical Review and Historical Application

The Isle aux Morts Shipwreck: A Contribution to Seventeenth-Century Material Culture in Newfoundland

A Late 17th‐Century Trade Cargo from Ponta do Leme Velho, Sal Island, Cape Verde

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