James A Delle
Biographic Data
| ID | 105648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Delle |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Delle |
| SIGNATURE | DELLE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kutztown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8519-7161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Reflections on Archaeology and Northern Slavery
The archaeological evidence for slavery exists in some of the most unexpected spaces. Despite many attempts to focus elsewhere, the author has inevitably encountered this evidence throughout his career as an archaeologist in the U.S. Northeast. In this essay, he reflects on the origins of his entanglement with the material evidence of northern slavery, from his very first field school up through his experience as a tenured senior archaeologist. T…
The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom
The archaeology of northern slavery and freedom began with the excavations of Lucy Foster’s Garden in the 1940s. Following trends then current, in the 1970s, researchers began to consider evidence for the retention of African cultural traits in the archaeological record. Attention to the dynamics of northern slavery exploded following the excavation of the African Burial Ground site in New York during the early 1990s. As the paradigm on African A…
Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate, by Mark W. Hauser & Diane Wallman (eds.)
Repurposed Metal Objects in the Political Economy of Jamaican Slavery
Plantation Archaeology
Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean
Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean examines the diversity of living environments that the enslaved inhabitants of the colonial Caribbean by analyzing archaeological evidence collected from a wide variety of sites across the region. Archaeological investigations of domestic architecture and artifacts illuminate the nature of household organization; fundamental changes in settlement patterns; and the manner in which…
Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean
The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom
Although African slavery in the United States is generally associated with the South, the institution also existed in northern states as late as the 1840s, especially in large urban centers, such as Philadelphia and New York. Contrariwise, freed African Americans in the region established rural communities all their own and actively resisted the institution as a whole. The newest volume proposed for inclusion in the American Experience in Archaeo…
Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies, written by Jefferson Dillman
Life beyond the Village: Field Houses and Liminal Space on a Jamaican Coffee Plantation
Much of what we know archaeologically about the material realities of Caribbean plantation slavery is based on the interpretation of objects recovered from plantation village contexts. While a majority of those enslaved on plantations did in fact live in such contexts, not all did. This chapter analyzes a previously unexamined material and spatial reality of Jamaican plantations, the existence and importance of extra-village localities in which p…
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between
All parts of the Caribbean were shaped by similar forces, including race-based chattel slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical and sometimes deadly natural environment. Within these commonalities, however, is also a great deal of diversity. Large sugar plantations populated by hundreds of enslaved Africans rightfully receive a great deal of attention from archaeologists, historians, and the public. The authors in this volume, however, use in…
Marronage and the Dialectics of Spatial Sovereignty in Colonial Jamaica
Archaeology and the ‘Tensions of Empire’
The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System
The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology. James A. Delle considers spatial phenomena ranging from the diachronic settlement pattern of the island as a whole to the organization of ind…
Death and Burial at Marshall's Pen, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1814–1839: Examining the End of Life at the End of Slavery
Archaeological studies of slave and post-emancipation sites often discuss death and burial practices, despite the fact that actual cemeteries often prove difficult to locate. This aboveground study of a singular cemetery at Marshall's Pen, a coffee plantation in Jamaica, addresses questions of end of life issues for Afro-Jamaicans both before and after the abolition of slavery. This study utilizes the documentary record, comparative research, and…
A Plantation Transplanted: Archaeological Investigations of a Piedmont-Style Slave Quarter at Rose Hill, Geneva, New York
Although a relatively short-lived phenomenon, plantation slavery was established in the Finger Lakes region of New York State by immigrant planters from Maryland and Virginia. Excavations at the Rose Hill site, Geneva, NY have located two quarter sites associated with these early 19th-century plantations, including the standing Jean Nicholas house on property once part of the White Springs Farm, the other a subsurface, though largely intact, ston…
Archaeology, Intangible Heritage, and the Negotiation of Urban Identity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Remembering the Women of Vine Street: Archaeology and Historic Preservation of an Urban Landscape in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Governor and the Enslaved: An Archaeology of Colonial Modernity at Marshall's Pen, Jamaica
Archaeology at the Parvin Homestead: Searching for the Material Legacy of the Underground Railroad
An Archaeology of Modernity in Colonial Jamaica
A tale of two tunnels: Memory, archaeology, and the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is a widely known but generally misunderstood historical phenomenon that has recently become a focus of much scholarly and popular attention. To understand the Underground Railroad and the ways it is currently remembered, it is perhaps best to consider it as a simultaneous manifestation of public memory, social memory, and social myth. In examining these processes of collective memorialization, two archaeological sites th…
Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands
Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands. Douglas V. Armstrong. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 448 pp
Heritage Tourism and Community Outreach: Public Archaeology at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Historic sites serve as windows into the past that rely on material culture to narrate the past to the public. This narration serves as a dialogue between archaeologists and the public, creating a relationship that shapes community and individual awareness of heritage. However, heritage is a mediated and constructed concept that expresses particular histories to support specific agendas, ranging from scholarly archaeological research to urban ren…
Excavations at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Archaeological Evidence for the Underground Railroad
This article reports on archaeological investigations conducted at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Stevens and Smith Site stands in the footprint of Ii proposed convention center and hotel complex, and will be partially destroyed by the construction. Stevens, a noted anti-slavery legislator, and Smith, his African American housekeeper and companion, are reputed to have been actively involved in t…
The landscapes of class negotiation on coffee plantations in the blue mountains of Jamaica: 1790–1850
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between
All parts of the Caribbean were shaped by similar forces, including race-based chattel slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical and sometimes deadly natural environment. Within these commonalities, however, is also a great deal of diversity. Large sugar plantations populated by hundreds of enslaved Africans rightfully receive a great deal of attention from archaeologists, historians, and the public. The authors in this volume, however, use in…
The material and cognitive dimensions of creolization in nineteenth-century Jamaica
A tale of two tunnels: Memory, archaeology, and the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is a widely known but generally misunderstood historical phenomenon that has recently become a focus of much scholarly and popular attention. To understand the Underground Railroad and the ways it is currently remembered, it is perhaps best to consider it as a simultaneous manifestation of public memory, social memory, and social myth. In examining these processes of collective memorialization, two archaeological sites th…
The Governor and the Enslaved: An Archaeology of Colonial Modernity at Marshall's Pen, Jamaica
Archaeology at the Parvin Homestead: Searching for the Material Legacy of the Underground Railroad
Excavations at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Archaeological Evidence for the Underground Railroad
This article reports on archaeological investigations conducted at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Stevens and Smith Site stands in the footprint of Ii proposed convention center and hotel complex, and will be partially destroyed by the construction. Stevens, a noted anti-slavery legislator, and Smith, his African American housekeeper and companion, are reputed to have been actively involved in t…
An Archaeology of Modernity in Colonial Jamaica
A Plantation Transplanted: Archaeological Investigations of a Piedmont-Style Slave Quarter at Rose Hill, Geneva, New York
Although a relatively short-lived phenomenon, plantation slavery was established in the Finger Lakes region of New York State by immigrant planters from Maryland and Virginia. Excavations at the Rose Hill site, Geneva, NY have located two quarter sites associated with these early 19th-century plantations, including the standing Jean Nicholas house on property once part of the White Springs Farm, the other a subsurface, though largely intact, ston…
Archaeology, Intangible Heritage, and the Negotiation of Urban Identity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
A Good and Easy Speculation”: Spatial Conflict, Collusion and Resistance in Late Sixteenth-Century Munster, Ireland
Heritage Tourism and Community Outreach: Public Archaeology at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Historic sites serve as windows into the past that rely on material culture to narrate the past to the public. This narration serves as a dialogue between archaeologists and the public, creating a relationship that shapes community and individual awareness of heritage. However, heritage is a mediated and constructed concept that expresses particular histories to support specific agendas, ranging from scholarly archaeological research to urban ren…
Women's Lives and labour on Radnor, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1822–1826
(2002). Women's Lives and labour on Radnor, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1822–1826. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 27-40
Death and Burial at Marshall's Pen, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1814–1839: Examining the End of Life at the End of Slavery
Archaeological studies of slave and post-emancipation sites often discuss death and burial practices, despite the fact that actual cemeteries often prove difficult to locate. This aboveground study of a singular cemetery at Marshall's Pen, a coffee plantation in Jamaica, addresses questions of end of life issues for Afro-Jamaicans both before and after the abolition of slavery. This study utilizes the documentary record, comparative research, and…
On Collaboration, Class Conflict, and Archaeology in Brazil
Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean. Paul Farnsworth. ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. 378 pp
"Marxism in Contemporary Western Archaeology", Bruce G. Trigger in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 5, edited by Michael B . Schiffer. Tucson, Unversity of Arizona Press 1993
Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape . Rebecca Yamin , Karen Bescherer Metheny
American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega
The Spatialities of Coffee Plantations in the Yallahs River Drainage 1790–1834
An Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
A Good and Easy Speculation”: Spatial Conflict, Collusion and Resistance in Late Sixteenth-Century Munster, Ireland
The landscapes of class negotiation on coffee plantations in the blue mountains of Jamaica: 1790–1850
The material and cognitive dimensions of creolization in nineteenth-century Jamaica
Women's Lives and labour on Radnor, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1822–1826
(2002). Women's Lives and labour on Radnor, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1822–1826. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 27-40
On Collaboration, Class Conflict, and Archaeology in Brazil
The Hector Backbone: A Quiescent Landscape of Conflict
Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean. Paul Farnsworth. ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. 378 pp
Excavations at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Archaeological Evidence for the Underground Railroad
This article reports on archaeological investigations conducted at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Stevens and Smith Site stands in the footprint of Ii proposed convention center and hotel complex, and will be partially destroyed by the construction. Stevens, a noted anti-slavery legislator, and Smith, his African American housekeeper and companion, are reputed to have been actively involved in t…
Heritage Tourism and Community Outreach: Public Archaeology at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Historic sites serve as windows into the past that rely on material culture to narrate the past to the public. This narration serves as a dialogue between archaeologists and the public, creating a relationship that shapes community and individual awareness of heritage. However, heritage is a mediated and constructed concept that expresses particular histories to support specific agendas, ranging from scholarly archaeological research to urban ren…
Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands
Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands. Douglas V. Armstrong. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 448 pp
Archaeology at the Parvin Homestead: Searching for the Material Legacy of the Underground Railroad
An Archaeology of Modernity in Colonial Jamaica
A tale of two tunnels: Memory, archaeology, and the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is a widely known but generally misunderstood historical phenomenon that has recently become a focus of much scholarly and popular attention. To understand the Underground Railroad and the ways it is currently remembered, it is perhaps best to consider it as a simultaneous manifestation of public memory, social memory, and social myth. In examining these processes of collective memorialization, two archaeological sites th…
The Governor and the Enslaved: An Archaeology of Colonial Modernity at Marshall's Pen, Jamaica
Remembering the Women of Vine Street: Archaeology and Historic Preservation of an Urban Landscape in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Archaeology, Intangible Heritage, and the Negotiation of Urban Identity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
A Plantation Transplanted: Archaeological Investigations of a Piedmont-Style Slave Quarter at Rose Hill, Geneva, New York
Although a relatively short-lived phenomenon, plantation slavery was established in the Finger Lakes region of New York State by immigrant planters from Maryland and Virginia. Excavations at the Rose Hill site, Geneva, NY have located two quarter sites associated with these early 19th-century plantations, including the standing Jean Nicholas house on property once part of the White Springs Farm, the other a subsurface, though largely intact, ston…
Archaeology and the ‘Tensions of Empire’
The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System
The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology. James A. Delle considers spatial phenomena ranging from the diachronic settlement pattern of the island as a whole to the organization of ind…
Death and Burial at Marshall's Pen, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1814–1839: Examining the End of Life at the End of Slavery
Archaeological studies of slave and post-emancipation sites often discuss death and burial practices, despite the fact that actual cemeteries often prove difficult to locate. This aboveground study of a singular cemetery at Marshall's Pen, a coffee plantation in Jamaica, addresses questions of end of life issues for Afro-Jamaicans both before and after the abolition of slavery. This study utilizes the documentary record, comparative research, and…
History (32 works) · Archaeology (31 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (28 works) · Geography (22 works) · Sociology (19 works) · History (17 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 works) · Ethnology (13 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Political science (11 works)