Old ways in new places? Experimenting with plants in the early plantation setting

Q1 Social Sciences

Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI:10.1080/0734578X.2021.1945745

J. L. Johanson, A. Agha

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ABSTRACT Plants and foodways have long been recognized for their importance to the construction of identity and culture in plantation settings. Yet despite this focus on plants and foodways in plantation archaeology, there is a need for more archaeological documentation of the types of plants and fields being cultivated in newly formed plantations in the New World. We combine historical documentation with an assemblage of recovered plant remains from the Lord Ashley site (38DR83a) to examine plant use during the formative years of a plantation economy. A renewed focus on experimental cropping in the New World plantation system at this site, along with one of the most well documented enslaved African populations before the 1690s in South Carolina, point to the influence of cross-cultural entanglements in building New World agricultural systems. The recovery of watermelon, an African cultivar, found alongside an assemblage of artifacts and other archaeobotanical remains associated with the enslaved Africans at the site, also point to the role of first-generation Africans in establishing New World foodway traditions.

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旧的方式在新的地方?在早期种植环境中对植物进行试验

长期以来，植物和食物方式对种植园环境中身份和文化建设的重要性一直得到认可。然而，尽管种植园考古学关注植物和食物方式，但仍需要更多关于新大陆新形成的种植园中种植的植物和田地类型的考古文献。我们将历史文献与从阿什利勋爵遗址(38DR83a)恢复的植物遗骸组合结合起来，研究植物在种植园经济形成时期的使用情况。在这里，人们重新关注新世界种植园系统的实验性种植，以及17世纪90年代之前南卡罗来纳州被奴役的非洲人口，这些都表明了跨文化纠缠对建立新世界农业系统的影响。与被奴役的非洲人相关的一系列文物和其他考古植物遗迹一起发现的西瓜(一种非洲品种)也表明，第一代非洲人在建立新世界饮食传统方面发挥了作用。

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Southeastern Archaeology Social Sciences-Archeology

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期刊介绍： Southeastern Archaeology is a refereed journal that publishes works concerning the archaeology and history of southeastern North America and neighboring regions. It covers all time periods, from Paleoindian to recent history and defines the southeast broadly; this could be anything from Florida (south) to Wisconsin (North) and from Oklahoma (west) to Virginia (east). Reports or articles that cover neighboring regions such as the Northeast, Plains, or Caribbean would be considered if they had sufficient relevance.