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In Pope, P.E. and S. Lewis-Simpson (Eds.) Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Permanence and Transience in New Found Lands. Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph no. 7.
Status and Diet: Variations in Elite Foodways at Newfoundland Fishing Stations in the 17th and 18th Centuries2013 •
This paper uses archaeological and historical evidence to compare élite foodways at two Newfoundland fishing sites: a permanent 17th-century English settlement and a seasonal 18th-century French fishing station. Similarities between high-status deposits at these sites demonstrate faunal exploitation patterns that reflect the time and resources available to higher-status individuals. Differences between assemblages at the the two sites suggest that year-round and seasonal residence gave access to different ranges of foods, while helping to shape the perception of what constituted luxury foods in each context.
Documentary and faunal evidence from the 17th-century English colony at Ferryland, Newfoundland, illustrates how the settlers adapted traditional English dietary practices to suit their new situation. The role of both domestic and wild mammals in the diet changed little over the course of the century. Pigs were consistently the most important mammal, supplemented by cattle, sheep/goat, caribou, and seal. The continuity of dietary patterns at the site indicates that the colonists very quickly developed a subsistence regime to maximize fresh meat consumption, given the scheduling demands of the cod fi shery and the limitations and potential of the Newfoundland environment.
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Inferring human behaviours from isotopic analyses of rats diets: A critical review and historical applicationJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Inferring Human Behaviors from Isotopic Analyses of Rat Diet: a Critical Review and Historical Application2015 •
Journal of Archaeological …
A stable isotope method for identifying transatlantic origin of pig (< i> Sus scrofa</i>) remains at French and English fishing stations in Newfoundland2012 •
From the 16th century onward, various European nations shared fishing spaces off the coast of Newfoundland in an effort to provide salt-fish products to supplement increasing European demand. Faunal remains excavated at seasonal and permanent Newfoundland fishing stations indicate that pigs were the primary mammal species consumed by cod fishermen. It is not clear whether these pig remains derive from salt pork and/or live pigs imported from Europe or, rather, from pigs bred and raised in Newfoundland. Based on the notion that Newfoundland-raised pigs would have had greater access to marine-derived foods from nearby fisheries compared to their European-raised counterparts, we analyzed stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values from 28 pigs and 117 other faunal specimens from Dos de Cheval (EfAx-09) and Ferryland (CgAf-02) in order to identify individuals with marine or terrestrial isotope dietary signatures. Results indicating two distinct groups of pigs with mean d13C and d15N values differing by w6& and w9&, respectively, suggest differing pig-product origins at each site. This method for identifying the transatlantic origin of pig remains has potential to shed light on patterns in the provisioning of the early European transatlantic fishing industry and inter-community relations. It may also allow for the development of more sophisticated body part representation models for zooarchaeological reconstruction of barreled salt pork use.
Exploring Atlantic Transitions : Archaeologies of Permanence and Transience in New Found Lands
Of Obligation and Necessity: The Social Contexts of Trade between Permanent Residents and Migratory Traders in Plaisance, Newfoundland (1662-1690)2013 •
The colony of Plaisance (1662-1713) was established to safeguard the French fishery in Newfoundland. Official ships sent to resupply the colony were infrequent at best, so colonists had to rely on seasonal visits from merchant ships to obtain necessary supplies. An analysis of ceramic provenance data from Plaisance is combined with the study of documents belonging to an itinerant French trader working in the colony in the 1670s, demonstrating how colonists obtained necessary supplies, the origins of those supplies and the social contexts of colonial-metropolitan trade.
Allometry and growth-increment aging of archaeological fish remains has the potential to reveal much about past fishing strategies, fish processing and trade, and fish populations. This paper documents the age and size characteristics of four samples of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) bones from early European contexts at Red Bay, Ferryland, Bay Bulls, and Crouse, which collectively span the middle 16th to early 19th centuries AD. The samples, which document the size structure of the “fished” population (the death assemblage), allow for a comparison of fishing strategies and techniques between the early Basque, French, and English commercial operations. At the same time, the samples, derived from multiple fishing regions around Newfoundland and Labrador, provide an important record of cod populations during early stages of the commercial fishery and thus offer a critical baseline record against which to compare modern handlined cod population data.
Historical Archaeology
Environmental archaeology and landscape transformation at the Seventeenth-Century Ferryland Site, Newfoundland2010 •
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2012 •
Arctic Anthropology
Changing Subsistence Practices at the Dorset Paleoeskimo Site of Phillip’s Garden, Newfoundland2003 •
In: Exploring Atlantic Transitions, Edited by Peter E. Pope with Shannon Lewis-Simpson, pp. 299-309
Thule Radiocarbon Chronology and its Implications for Early Inuit-European Interaction in Labrador2013 •
Exploring Atlantic Transitions : Archaeologies of Permanence and Transience in New Found Lands.
Exploring the Role of the Inuit in the European Settlement Process in Sandwich Bay, Labrador. By Lisa K. RankinPeter Pope & Shannon Lewis-Simpson (eds.), Exploring Atlantic Transitions. Archaeologies of Transcience and Permanence in New Found Lands. Society of Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph 8, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2013, pp. 1-15
On the Verge of Colonialism: English and Hanseatic Trade in the North Atlantic Islands2013 •
Journal of Archaeological Science
High-resolution serial sampling for nitrogen stable isotope analysis of archaeological mammal teeth2016 •
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L'implantation d'une colonie terre-neuvienne au XVII^ e siecle: l'apport des analyses archeobotanique et archeoentomologique2007 •
Master's Thesis
Not Just Fisherfolk: Winter Housing and the Seasonal Lifeways of Rural Euro-Newfoundlanders2017 •
Journal of the North Atlantic
Asylum for wayward immigrants: historic ports and colonial settlements in northeast North America2011 •
Journal of the North Atlantic
Urbanization in Reykjavík: Post-Medieval Archaeofauna from the Downtown Area2012 •
Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
Outport Economics: Culture and Agriculture in Later Seventeenth-Century Newfoundland2005 •
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Ontario Archaeology
Minimum Sample Sizes, Recovery Techniques and the Reporting of Animal Bones from Historic Period Assemblages in Ontario2017 •
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Canadian Journal of Archeaeology
Return to Hopedale: Excavations at Anniowaktook Island, Hopedale, Labrador2013 •
Quaternary International
Pre-contact adaptations to the Little Ice Age in Southwest Alaska: New evidence from the Nunalleq site2020 •
Environmental Archaeology
Sources of Meat in Colonial Diets: Faunal Evidence from Two Nineteenth Century Tasmanian Whaling Stations2002 •