Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Gunflint Assemblages: Understanding Use, Trade, and Variability in the Southeastern United States

Autor: Rachel A. Horowitz, David J. Watt
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 24:95-114
ISSN: 1573-7748
1092-7697
DOI: 10.1007/s10761-019-00505-y
Popis: Gunflint production variability and its association with specific manufacturing locations have been used as mechanisms for understanding distribution networks between European powers, Indigenous peoples, and settlers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Americas. Gunflint production mechanisms and scale varies between production locations, but recent studies illustrate that the spatial and temporal variability in production activities is more diverse than previously thought. Here we examine three gunflint assemblages from eighteenth-and nineteenth-century sites in Louisiana to address gunflint production variability’s relationship with temporal differences and changing economic networks. Broadly, this study finds greater variability in exchange of gunflints than previously thought and suggests that interactions between European colonial powers and their colonies were more complex and nuanced than previously suspected.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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