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Archaeology of Telling Time: Plants and the Greenhouse at Wye House Plantation

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Pollen from useful plants at Wye House in Easton, Maryland, are interpreted as medical traditions and as time telling among African-Americans and European Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth century culture of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The exhibit was supported by Richard and Beverly Tilghman who own Wye House and who are Lloyd descendants, the Division of Research, the Graduate School, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Maryland, College Park. The exhibit was also supported by the Historical Society of Talbot County, the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Talbot County Arts Council, and the Maryland Humanities Council, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

  2. 2.

    In this chapter, Black and White are capitalized where the words indicate a racial identity. Throughout the African diaspora, these two categories were created in such a way that allowed one to remain free while the other was enslaved for generations. These labels distinguish groups of people as they came to define and identify themselves as separate from each other at Wye House and other plantations.

  3. 3.

    We do not have permission to use images of any of the three African-American yards we have seen in Easton.

  4. 4.

    The excavations were done by Matt Cochran, John Blair, and Stephanie Duensing (Blair et al. 2009; Blair and Duensing 2009). The analyses were done by Heather Trigg and Susan Jacobucci, both archaeologists and palynologists at the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (Jacobucci and Trigg 2010).

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    Mark P. Leone & Elizabeth F. Pruitt

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Leone, M., Pruitt, E. (2015). Archaeology of Telling Time: Plants and the Greenhouse at Wye House Plantation. In: Leone, M., Knauf, J. (eds) Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12760-6_5

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