Feasting on Broken Glass: Making a Meal of Seeds, Bones, and Sherds

Beaudry, Mary C.

doi:10.22191/neha/vol42/iss1/10

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“…These birds may not be considered in historic projects because of the extreme commonality of chicken and turkey but appear to have retained a more consistent role at these sites. Finally, sites like Barclays Bank with large sample sizes suggest that other wild birds considered undesirable today because of their texture and taste were more regularly consumed in the past, including gulls and cormorants (e.g., Beaudry, ; Hodgetts, ; Landon, ).…”

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A reevaluation of bird taxonomic identifications at Contact‐ and historic‐era North American sites

Watson

Ledogar

2019

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Domestic chickens (Gallus domesticus) and turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) are identified more frequently than other bird species in bone assemblages from historic sites in North America. Recent studies on the effectiveness of metric data for identification of galliform bones found high degrees of similarity in size and morphology between wild game birds (e.g., grouse and ptarmigan) and multiple domestic or introduced species (e.g., chicken and pheasant). This finding suggests that wild taxa and less common domesticates may have been misidentified as chicken and as a result are underrepresented in these historic datasets. In this paper, we evaluate the precision of bird taxonomic identifications from five Contact‐ and historic‐era sites in New York State, comparing the initial taxon designations recorded in site reports with our new identifications derived from a combination of comparative morphological and osteometric analyses. After our analysis of the assemblages, game bird diversity at most of the sites expanded, as did the prevalence of other orders (e.g., Anseriformes and Strigiformes). The updated identifications highlight the diversity of birds used in historic contexts and the importance of combining multiple analytical methods to increase accuracy.

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A reevaluation of bird taxonomic identifications at Contact‐ and historic‐era North American sites

Watson

Ledogar

2019

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…This is because the MNBU relates to wholesale units, whereas in 18th-19th century Western market economies the pieces of meat that are actually purchased from butchers or probable Retail Units of Acquisition (RUA) represented by animal bones are likely to have been much smaller. These are more difficult to calculate accurately, but the actual quantity of meat purchased may have been in the region of 25% of the MNBU value; Huelsbeck 1991, 69-70, table 2. xxv This approach does mean that certain aspects of the assemblage such as ceramic fabrics are largely ignored, although these have been discussed elsewhere: xxvi Brooks 2005;Scott 1997. xxvii For other integrated approaches see Beaudry 2008;Beaudry 2013. xxviii Cowan 2005, 80. xxix Jorg 1982, 164-66, 186-87. xxx Loveman 2013, 49. xxxi Loveman 2013, 46 note 78;Smith 1996, 184. xxxii Carstairs 2013. xxxiii Carstairs 2013. xxxiv Jorg 1982, 166. xxxv Mountford 1971, 58. xxxvi Jennings 1981, 230;Vince & Egan 1981, 164. xxxvii Pemberton 2009. xxxviii Jorg 1982, 164. xxxix Cessford 2007. xl Cowan 2005, 84;Forsyth 2011, 192. xli Cowan 2005, 82. xlii Bimson 1970 xliii For a recent discussion see Harvey 2012. xliv Van den Bossche 2001.…”

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‘To Clapham’s I go’: a mid to late 18th-century Cambridge coffeehouse assemblage

Cessford

Hall

Herring

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Post-Medieval Archaeology

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The recovery of a large closely dated assemblage that can be unambiguously associated with a mid-late 18th-century Cambridge coffeehouse provides the first opportunity for a detailed consideration of material associated with these significant institutions. A cellar in Cambridge, England, backfilled c. 1775-80 produced a substantial assemblage of over 500 items; principally ceramics, but also including vessel glass, clay tobacco pipes, animal bone and other material. Marked items and assemblage composition allows this material to be unambiguously associated with Clapham's coffeehouse, run by William and Jane Clapham c. 1746/48-79. There were a substantial number of ceramics associated with tea drinking, coffee drinking vessels were frequent but less common and there was relatively little evidence for chocolate drinking. A range of alcoholic drinks were also consumed and dining was common, with a particular emphasis on snacks, whilst smoking appears to have been uncommon. The assemblage is compared with other groups associated with coffeehouses, a series of groups from earlier inns in the vicinity and broadly contemporary domestic assemblages from Cambridge and inn groups from England. The archaeological evidence indicates that the materialities of coffeehouses were not significantly different from inns and challenges some currently held views of coffeehouses. Additional Information: Question Response Author Comments: The vast majority of the changes that I have made relate directly to the reviewers/editors comments. I have also corrected a few minor typos/errors that I spotted and added a few things that I have come across in the last few months. The latter includes material from Chapman and Kostro 2016 and my article 'Throwing Away Everything but the Kitchen Sink?: Large Assemblages, Depositional Practice and Post-Medieval Households in Cambridge', which I feel it is now appropriate to reference as it Powered by Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager® from Aries Systems Corporation has been formally accepted by Post-Medieval Archaeology. There are a few instances where I have not followed the reviewers/editors comments: 1) Changing 'Manganese mottled' to 'Staffordshire-type mottled ware'. I have found the former term more common and don't think the ware is particularly closely associated with Staffordshire. I would prefer to stick with the current term, unless there is some official PMA policy. 2) The dating of Manganese mottled ware. I am not aware of any good discussions of this topic, the information is derived from a whole range of publications and websites. Given the relative lack of the material in this assemblage I don't feel it appropriate to go into this in depth that would be required. 3) The term 'Bell shaped' tankard and 'making up names for vessel shapes'. This is a fairly widely used term and as far as I know and there is other more common term. 4) Fig 38.1: I can see why it looks Notts/Derby type stoneware in the photo, but the fabric clearly isn't. 5) Describing some of the tin-glazed earthenwar...

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Fare for Empire: Commensal Events in Colonial Bermuda

Fortenberry

Carlson

2015

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Feasting on Broken Glass: Making a Meal of Seeds, Bones, and Sherds

Cited by 20 publications

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A reevaluation of bird taxonomic identifications at Contact‐ and historic‐era North American sites

A reevaluation of bird taxonomic identifications at Contact‐ and historic‐era North American sites

‘To Clapham’s I go’: a mid to late 18th-century Cambridge coffeehouse assemblage

Fare for Empire: Commensal Events in Colonial Bermuda

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