The Seventeenth Century Brewhouse and Bakery at Ferryland, Newfoundland

Clausnitzer, Arthur R.; Gaulton, Barry C.

doi:10.22191/neha/vol41/iss1/2

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“…Extensive archaeological investigations in the area have identified the remains of the Pool Plantation as the administrative hub of the region during the seventeenth century (e.g. Carter 1997;Clausnitzer and Gaulton 2012;Crompton 2000;Gaulton 1997Gaulton , 2006Mathias 2009;Nixon 1999;Tuck 1993; for review see Gaulton 2003, 2013;Tuck 1996Tuck , 2013. Excavations have also documented continued eighteenth-century occupation in the same location (Gaulton and Hawkins 2014;Hranka 2007;Lesovec 2007) but provide comparatively limited information to help interpret how the broader use of this key area changed in response to the repeated attacks and economic turmoil at the turn of the eighteenth century (Hranka 2007;Pope 2004).…”

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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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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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Section: Rats Diets As a Proxy For Human Behavior At Ferrylandmentioning

confidence: 99%