ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2030-7945
Date Awarded
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Anthropology
Advisor
Martin D. Gallivan
Committee Member
Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
Committee Member
Audrey Horning
Abstract
The Hand site is a complex Native American village site located on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia. Intensive excavations in the 1960s identified over 600 archaeological features, including hearths, pits, structural remains, and a complex of human and canine burials, long assumed to date to the Protohistoric period. While previous researchers emphasized the site’s ties to the colonial actors, a reexamination of the collection instead suggests the site was a geographic locus for Indigenous peoples for over a thousand years. A close attention to chronology as well as space speaks to a deep history of emplacement, whereby social memory was integral to making place.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-7p2f-a051
Rights
© The Author
Recommended Citation
Triplett, Taylor Blair, "Social Memory, Persistent Place, And Depositional Practice At The Hand Site (44Sn22) In Southeastern Virginia" (2020). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. William & Mary. Paper 1616444326.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-7p2f-a051
