Unearthing St. Mary's city : fifty years of archaeology at Maryland's first capital /
edited by Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno ; foreword by William M. Kelso.
- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Foreword / Introduction to St. Mary's City History and Archaeology / Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods -- From Humus Mold to Stout Building : Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures / Soil Analysis at the St. John's Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited / Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary's City Example / Ceramic Studies at Maryland's First Capital / Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City -- The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary's City and the Interactions of Cultures / St. John's Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland's Earliest Plantations / "Master Pope's Fort": Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary's City, Maryland / Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland / "The most bewitching Game" : Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary's City / The Lead Coffins of St. Mary's: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake / Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary's City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries -- The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community / A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them / The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary's City / "Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary": Archaeology of St. Mary's Female Seminary / Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place / William M. Kelso -- Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno -- Garry Wheeler Stone and Alexander H. Morrison II -- Silas D. Hurry and Robert Winston Keeler -- Ruth M. Mitchell and Henry M. Miller -- Silas D. Hurry -- Henry M. Miller and Silas D. Hurry -- Ruth M. Mitchell, Henry M. Miller, and Garry Wheeler Stone -- Charles H. Fithian -- Wesley R. Willoughby -- Travis G. Parno and Timothy B. Riordan -- Karin S. Bruwelheide, Henry M. Miller, Douglas W. Owsley and Timothy B. Riordan -- Garry Wheeler Stone and Stephen S. Israel -- George L. Miller -- Terry Peterkin Brock -- Michelle Sivilich, Travis G. Parno, Ruth M. Mitchell, and Donald L. Winter -- Henry M. Miller and Travis G. Parno.
"This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America"--