Domesticating the Chesapeake Landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23736855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne Bowen, Joanne M Bowen (0000-0003-0876-0031, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 67-94 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Historical Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5744/florida/9780813069050.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W4285331814 |
| ISBN | 9780813069050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In 1699, when Williamsburg became the new capital of Virginia, the colony’s plantation economy had begun to incorporate producing wheat into what had been a singular focus on tobacco production. This chapter draws on zooarchaeological and documentary evidence to show how this new capital emerged as part of the transformation of the landscape, from one based on slash-and-burn agriculture and free ranging livestock into a hybrid system that incorporated elements of the mixed husbandry system colonists had known in the Old World. Behavioral studies identify the role livestock played as colonizers, and how, working in tandem with colonists, they produced a free ranging herd system. Data show how ecodynamic relationships between colonists, their livestock, and the agricultural system resulted in transforming the tobacco-focused landscape, one capable of producing commodities for trade and feeding Williamsburg’s emerging population.
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Animal husbandry · Archaeology · Biology · Capital (architecture) · Economics · Economy · Geography · Livestock · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Forestry · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |