Analysis of the weight assemblage of Port Royal, Jamaica /
acres of the colonial port community sank below the waters of
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Summary: | acres of the colonial port community sank below the waters of activities within the excavated area of the colonial port and long distance trade and commercial patterns in colonial as well as owners marks and regal stamps of authority. century weights recovered from a single colonial site. On community. From a macro perspective, analysis of the weights contribute to the broader understanding of life and economic depth analysis of the weight collection associated with economic necessity for standardization of weights. Analysis European countries, in an advantageous position to become a excavations with information from wills, inventories and data from comparative assemblage known as the Streeter Collection, from nautical and terrestrial excavations at the site. Many investigation. Combining data from archaeological Jamaica. From a micro perspective, this analysis will June 7, 1692, just shortly before noon, an earthquake shook Kingston Harbor. To date, 90 weights have been recovered leading economic force in the seventeenth century. An in may have contributed in placing England apart from other of London. Bronze and lead weights bearing cipher stamps of these bear the stamps and ciphers of English trade guilds of weight iconography suggests differences in mind-set that offer a unique opportunity for archaeological and historical process. Royal, Jamaica is the largest collection of seventeenth- seventeenth-century Port Royal will draw many sources of data Several weights in the collection also bear a mark in the shape of a dagger or sword, which is associated with the City should corroborate reforms in English law regarding the The assemblage of weights recovered from excavations at Port the community of Port Royal and in a matter of minutes, due to a process known as liquefaction, approximately thirty-two together, offering new perspectives on the colonial Jamaican will result in a multi disciplinary analysis of about local |
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| Item Description: | "Major Subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 298 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |