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Plymouth Colony Archive Project


URL: http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/
Organization: Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Region: North America
Comments: This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies. Among other works, published here for the first time are a "Glossary and Notes on Plymouth Colony," "Seventeenth Century Timber Framing," and "Vernacular House Forms in Seventeenth Century Plymouth Colony: An Analysis of Evidence from the Plymouth Colony Room-by-Room Probate Inventories 1633-1685," by Patricia Scott Deetz and James Deetz. We also present studies focusing on broader regional and temporal scales, including Jim Deetz's analysis of changes over time in Anglo-American gravestone styles in New England, and discussion of the Parting Ways site and archaeological evidence found there of architectural forms and mortuary practices consistent with elements of African-American heritage. In addition, we present a number of tributes concerning the works of Prof. Deetz (1930-2000) in historical archaeology.

Culture(s):
   African Diaspora
   European American
   

 Topic(s):
   Agriculture
   Commerce
   Domestic
   Industrial
   Leisure
   Logging
   Political
   Religious
   Rural
   Urban
   

 Era(s):
   16th Century
   17th Century
   18th Century
   19th Century