Carmel Schrire
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmel Schrire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmel |
| FAMILY NAME | Schrire |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRIRE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 459 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Asian Ceramic Collections from VOC Sites at the Cape
The analysis of Asian ceramics in VOC sites at the Cape of Good Hope seeks to make sense and order out of things like the little, spotted toad and its associated mass of broken stuff. The VOC at the Cape imported ceramics from Europe and Asia and also produced coarse earthenware for daily use. Asian ceramics predominate in collections from excavated sites and archival probates of the 17th and 18th century. Utilitarian coarse stoneware pots and ja…
Historical Archaeology in South Africa
Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and archaeological data and cases from Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, the authors examine hunter gatherer peoples—both past and present--to assess these relationships and the mechanisms by which hunter gatherers adapt and maintain elements of their …
African Historical Archaeologies . Andrew M. Reid , Paul J. Lane
The Conciliators
The Archaeology of Difference
The Archaeology of Difference
The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross- Cultural Engagements in Oceania. Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke, eds. New York: Routledge, 2000. 418 pp
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Analysis of the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of burials in a colonial cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa, reveals life histories of the underclass there. We are able to distinguish foreign from local-born people, and to infer social status, specifically slavery, by linking bone chemistry and somatic modification. This is the first use of bone chemistry to reconstruct the life histories of a mixed population of diverse origin, buried…
Return to Nisa. Marjorie Shostak
What Can Archaeology Say about Capitalism
The apparent aim of this paper is to reveal the contribution of archaeology to understanding the social relations of capitalism. The burden of this particular study of rural settlement in the Scottish Highlands is to show that archaeology helps to achieve a deeper understanding of the transition from clan ownership to individual ownership during the period of Improvement that heralded the dawn of the new commercial age in the eighteenth and ninet…
Petrography of Locally Produced Pottery from the Dutch Colonial Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Digging through Darkness
Digging through darkness
In Digging through Darkness, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. She combines autobiography, historical archaeology, and fictional reconstructions to explore the roots and consequences of colonial conquest in Africa, Australia, and the Pacific. The book takes its unique shape from Schrire's intimate connection with her subject - she is a native white South African, the Jewish descendant of a colonist who arrived a…
The historical archaeology of Vergelegen, an early Farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope
Beyond lifetime averages
Stable-isotopic analyses of human bone, now an established aid to dietary reconstruction in archaeology, represent the diet as averaged over many years. Separate analysis of different skeletal components enables changes in diet and place of residence to be tracked, giving a fuller life-history for long-dead individuals
The Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope. Seventeeth-Century Drawings in the South African Library
An Historic Skeleton from the Slave Lodge at Vergelegen
J. C. Sealy, A. G. Morris, R. Armstrong, A. Markell, C. Schrire, An Historic Skeleton from the Slave Lodge at Vergelegen, Goodwin Series, Vol. 7, Historical Archaeology in the Western Cape (Jun., 1993), pp. 84-91
The Site History of the Historical Site at Oudepost I, Cape
Cheap Shots, Long Shots and a River in Egypt
Coins, Gaming Counters and a Bale Seal from Oudepost, Cape
The Archaeological Identity of Hunters and Herders at the Cape over the Last 2000 Years
Analysis of Faunal Remains from Oudepost I, an Early Outpost of the Dutch East India Company, Cape Province
Is the Penn Mightier than the shovel
The chronology of Oudepost I, Cape, as inferred from an analysis of clay pipes
Reply to Wilson, van Rijssen, Jacobson and Noli
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
Beyond lifetime averages
Stable-isotopic analyses of human bone, now an established aid to dietary reconstruction in archaeology, represent the diet as averaged over many years. Separate analysis of different skeletal components enables changes in diet and place of residence to be tracked, giving a fuller life-history for long-dead individuals
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Analysis of the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of burials in a colonial cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa, reveals life histories of the underclass there. We are able to distinguish foreign from local-born people, and to infer social status, specifically slavery, by linking bone chemistry and somatic modification. This is the first use of bone chemistry to reconstruct the life histories of a mixed population of diverse origin, buried…
Digging through darkness
In Digging through Darkness, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. She combines autobiography, historical archaeology, and fictional reconstructions to explore the roots and consequences of colonial conquest in Africa, Australia, and the Pacific. The book takes its unique shape from Schrire's intimate connection with her subject - she is a native white South African, the Jewish descendant of a colonist who arrived a…
Some Major Problems in the Social Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]
Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and archaeological data and cases from Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, the authors examine hunter gatherer peoples—both past and present--to assess these relationships and the mechanisms by which hunter gatherers adapt and maintain elements of their …
The Archaeological Identity of Hunters and Herders at the Cape over the Last 2000 Years
A Matter of Life and Death
The historical archaeology of the impact of colonialism in 17th-century South Africa
The written sources are overwhelming for that great historical event, the conquest of the world by Europeans between the 15th and the 19th centuries. Historical archaeology, especially in north America, now provides an important source of evidence of a different character. But what was it like to receive Europeans on your shore, what was it like to be dispossesed? Here is a report specifically concerned with relations between native and newcomer …
The historical archaeology of Vergelegen, an early Farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope
The Indigenous Artefacts from Oudepost I, a Colonial Outpost of the VOC at Saldanha Bay, Cape
Carmel Schrire, Janette Deacon, The Indigenous Artefacts from Oudepost I, a Colonial Outpost of the VOC at Saldanha Bay, Cape, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 150 (Dec., 1989), pp. 105-113
The chronology of Oudepost I, Cape, as inferred from an analysis of clay pipes
Petrography of Locally Produced Pottery from the Dutch Colonial Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Analysis of Faunal Remains from Oudepost I, an Early Outpost of the Dutch East India Company, Cape Province
Burkitt's milestone
Almost sixty years ago, Miles C. Burkitt, Lecturer in Prehistory in the University of Cambridge, visited South Africa at the invitation of the University of Cape Town where his former pupil, A.J.H. Goodwin had recently started work. The purpose of the visit was to show Burkitt the sites and elicit his opinions in preparation for the meeting of the British Association in South Africa the following year (Burkitt, 1962, 37; Goodwin, 1958, 32). It se…
Excavating archives at Oudepost 1, Cape
Read together, archival sources and archaeological data reveal more than either source standing alone. In this paper, we present the results of research at Oudepost I, a seventeenth/eighteenth century outpost on the Cape west coast. Here, a small garrison of Dutch East India Company soldiers guarded the Company's interests, particularly in the stock trade. Archaeological and documentary records agree on most details of daily life ‐ with one major…
The Conciliators
Cheap Shots, Long Shots and a River in Egypt
Coins, Gaming Counters and a Bale Seal from Oudepost, Cape
An Analysis of Human Behaviour and Animal Extinctions in South Africa and Australia in Late Pleistocene Times
Archaeology
A Matter of Life and Death
Archaeology
An inquiry into the evolutionary status and apparent identity of San hunter-gatherers
An Analysis of Human Behaviour and Animal Extinctions in South Africa and Australia in Late Pleistocene Times
Burkitt's milestone
Almost sixty years ago, Miles C. Burkitt, Lecturer in Prehistory in the University of Cambridge, visited South Africa at the invitation of the University of Cape Town where his former pupil, A.J.H. Goodwin had recently started work. The purpose of the visit was to show Burkitt the sites and elicit his opinions in preparation for the meeting of the British Association in South Africa the following year (Burkitt, 1962, 37; Goodwin, 1958, 32). It se…
Some Major Problems in the Social Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]
The historical archaeology of the impact of colonialism in 17th-century South Africa
The written sources are overwhelming for that great historical event, the conquest of the world by Europeans between the 15th and the 19th centuries. Historical archaeology, especially in north America, now provides an important source of evidence of a different character. But what was it like to receive Europeans on your shore, what was it like to be dispossesed? Here is a report specifically concerned with relations between native and newcomer …
The Indigenous Artefacts from Oudepost I, a Colonial Outpost of the VOC at Saldanha Bay, Cape
Carmel Schrire, Janette Deacon, The Indigenous Artefacts from Oudepost I, a Colonial Outpost of the VOC at Saldanha Bay, Cape, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 150 (Dec., 1989), pp. 105-113
The chronology of Oudepost I, Cape, as inferred from an analysis of clay pipes
Reply to Wilson, van Rijssen, Jacobson and Noli
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
Excavating archives at Oudepost 1, Cape
Read together, archival sources and archaeological data reveal more than either source standing alone. In this paper, we present the results of research at Oudepost I, a seventeenth/eighteenth century outpost on the Cape west coast. Here, a small garrison of Dutch East India Company soldiers guarded the Company's interests, particularly in the stock trade. Archaeological and documentary records agree on most details of daily life ‐ with one major…
Analysis of Faunal Remains from Oudepost I, an Early Outpost of the Dutch East India Company, Cape Province
Is the Penn Mightier than the shovel
Cheap Shots, Long Shots and a River in Egypt
Coins, Gaming Counters and a Bale Seal from Oudepost, Cape
The Archaeological Identity of Hunters and Herders at the Cape over the Last 2000 Years
An Historic Skeleton from the Slave Lodge at Vergelegen
J. C. Sealy, A. G. Morris, R. Armstrong, A. Markell, C. Schrire, An Historic Skeleton from the Slave Lodge at Vergelegen, Goodwin Series, Vol. 7, Historical Archaeology in the Western Cape (Jun., 1993), pp. 84-91
The Site History of the Historical Site at Oudepost I, Cape
The Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope. Seventeeth-Century Drawings in the South African Library
Digging through darkness
In Digging through Darkness, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. She combines autobiography, historical archaeology, and fictional reconstructions to explore the roots and consequences of colonial conquest in Africa, Australia, and the Pacific. The book takes its unique shape from Schrire's intimate connection with her subject - she is a native white South African, the Jewish descendant of a colonist who arrived a…
The historical archaeology of Vergelegen, an early Farmstead at the Cape of Good Hope
Beyond lifetime averages
Stable-isotopic analyses of human bone, now an established aid to dietary reconstruction in archaeology, represent the diet as averaged over many years. Separate analysis of different skeletal components enables changes in diet and place of residence to be tracked, giving a fuller life-history for long-dead individuals
Digging through Darkness
Petrography of Locally Produced Pottery from the Dutch Colonial Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Archaeology (29 works) · History (27 works) · Geography (22 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (18 works) · History (17 works) · Cape (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Ethnology (10 works)