1. The Chaîne Opératoire of Settler Wampum Manufacture at the David Campbell House in Northern New Jersey.
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Johnson, Eric D.
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ARCHAEOLOGY methodology , *COLONIES , *HOUSEHOLDS , *BEADS , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations , *INDUSTRIALIZATION - Abstract
From at least 1750 until 1900, Euro-American settlers of New York and New Jersey appropriated the production of Indigenous North American shell beads, namely wampum. Excavations at the David Campbell House in northeastern New Jersey yielded deposits of worked shell coterminous with household assemblages dating from 1810 to 1850. Artifact analyses combined with merchant ledger manuscripts reveal the chaîne opératoire of settler beadmaking from 1770 to 1900, including temporalities of production, waste, and racial and gendered labor dynamics in transition to factory production. Conclusions warrant greater archaeological attention to the relationship between capitalist industrialization, settler-colonial dispossession, and Indigenous resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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