Nantucket and other native places : the legacy of Elizabeth Alden Little / / edited by Elizabeth S. Chilton and Mary Lynne Rainey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824106503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-4384-3255-0; 1-4416-5820-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ChiltonElizabeth S; RaineyMary Lynne
• Disciplina: 974.4/97
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Massachusetts - Nantucket Island - Antiquities; Indians of North America - New England - Antiquities; Nantucket Island (Mass.) Antiquities; New England Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Published in cooperation with the Massachusetts Archaeological Society".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The "ancient dwelling" on Sunset Hill: preliminary archaeological investigations at the Jethro Coffin House / Duncan Ritchie -- Native American architecture on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts / Mary Lynne Rainey -- Drift whales at Nantucket: the kindness of moshup / Elizabeth Alden Little and J. Clinton Andrews -- Island queens: women sachems on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in the colonial period / Kathleen J. Bragdon -- Pilgrim subsistence: a seventeenth- century profile from the John and Priscilla Alden House, Duxbury, Massachusetts / Tonya Baroody Largy and Mitchell T. Mulholland -- The "Indian planting fields" in Concord, Massachusetts: influence of new techniques on archaeological explanatory models / Shirley Blancke -- Wampum use in southern New England: the paradox of bead production without the use of political belts / Marshall Joseph Becker -- The origin and spread of maize (zea mays) in New England / Elizabeth S. Chilton -- Limestone, shell, and the archaeological visibility of maize and beans in New England: a fertilizer hypothesis / Elizabeth Alden Little -- An intellectual biography of Elizabeth Alden ; Little 1927-2003 / Dena Ferran Dincauze.
• Sommario/riassunto: The archaeology and histories of the Native peoples and earliest settlers of eastern Massachusetts come vividly to life in these pages. Leading archaeologists and anthropologists share the latest findings and interpretations on a wide range of topics, including the archaeology of the Jethro Coffin House, arguably the oldest house in Nantucket; the origin and significance of maize horticulture; the production and distribution of wampum; Native women sachems of Martha's Vineyard; Native vernacular architecture at Nantucket; the "Indian planting fields" at Concord; fertilizer and Native horticulture; the enduring strands of significance of drift whales; and an insightful examination of a seventeenth-century house in Duxbury.A tribute to the career of the influential archaeologist Elizabeth Alden Little (1926–2003), Nantucket and Other Native Places offers an essential introduction to the archaeology of eastern Massachusetts. The book includes an homage to Elizabeth Little's life and career by renowned archaeologist Dena F. Dincauze, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of her extensive published work.