The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe I: Britain - the Midlands and Eastern England (BAR British) - Softcover

 
9780860540519: The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe I: Britain - the Midlands and Eastern England (BAR British)
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ISBN 10: 0860540510 ISBN 13: 9780860540519
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd, 1979

Synopsis

This thesis is based on the analysis of over 1,000 clay pipes, of the Colono type, found at three sites on the east coast of the USA within the Chesapeake Bay. The author discusses the archaeological context of the pipes and examines the types of decoration that are represented. He then places the pipes and their iconography within the cultural context of 17th-century Chesapeake. This area was a centre for plantation slavery and the increase in pipe-smoking corresponded with an increase in the slave population. The study argues that the slaves used the pipe decoration to aid the development of a new African-American ethinc identity. Includes an illustrated catalogue.

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Peter Davey

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Publisher
British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Publication date
1979
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0860540510
ISBN 13 
9780860540519
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
418
Editor
Davey Peter

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