Interpretive Papers

Interpretive papers arising directly from the Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture project. Click on the title to view the paper. Powerpoint presentations associated with the paper and/or formatted PDF versions can be downloaded as well.

Papers Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology in York, England

Digital Technology in Comparative Studies
by Catherine L. Alston
Notions of Comfort in the Early Colonial Chesapeake
by Philip Levy, John Coombs, and David Muraca
Archaeological Indicators of Native American Influences on English Life in the Colonial Chesapeake
by Edward E. Chaney
Measuring the Advent of Gentility
by Dennis J. Pogue
Locally-Made Tobacco Pipes in the Colonial Chesapeake
by C. Jane Cox, Al Luckenbach, Dave Gadsby, with contribution by Shawn Sharpe

Papers Presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture: Project Update
by Catherine L. Alston

Papers Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

On Living and Dying in the Colonial Chesapeake
by Catherine L. Alston

Student Papers

An Analysis of Marked and Decorated White Clay Tobacco Pipes from the Lower Patuxent Drainage
by Katherine D. Cavallo