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. Paper 1616444326.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-7p2f-a051
