TY - JOUR
KW - Markham
KW - Berczy family
KW - Land ownership
KW - Archaeology
AU - Eva MacDonald
AB - In 'In Small Things Forgotten' (1977), James Deetz challenged archaeologists to use material culture as a source of information about human actions that may not be represented widely in the written record. Consequently, studies of ethnic minority groups became popular in American historical archaeology from the 1970's onward. Equally invisible, however, are immigrant groups who wish to blend in with - or whose character resembles that of - the charter group in a given region. This article presents a model that seeks to distinguish German and English ethnic identity through an analysis of ceramic vessels from five domestic sites occupied by some of the first immigrants, including the Berczy family, to settle in Markham, Upper Canada (Ontario), from ca. 1794 to the 1830's. In particular, differences and similarities observed in the ceramic vessel assemblages are interpreted within the contexts of the goods available in the embryonic settlement and the ethnic foodways of the sites' occupants. [J]
BT - Northeast Historical Archaeology
C7 - Unknown(0)
ID - 348
LA - English
M1 - Journal Article
M3 - Print(0)
PY - 2004
SN - 00480738
SP - 13
EP - 38
EP - 
T1 - Towards a Historical Archaeology of the German-Canadians of Markham's Berczy Settlement
T2 - Northeast Historical Archaeology
VL - 33
ER -