ABSTRACT European colonization brought innumerable changes and choices to Native groups across the Southeast. Scholars continue to examine the various ways communities navigated these disruptions. Studying the remains of daily practice offers a window into how communities negotiated continuity and change. Wood charcoal, representing the remains of daily fires, provides an important, but underutilized, method for examining people’s daily routines and interactions with their surrounding landscapes. This paper examines wood charcoal assemblages from several sites in the North Carolina Piedmont that span the precontact to early colonial periods (AD 1400–1705). Fuelwood collection models are used to consider the environments, practices, and preferences that influenced the composition of wood charcoal assemblages. Comparison of these datasets shows a consistent significant pattern of high-quality fuelwood selection with additional patterns potentially related to long-term use of the same environment and factors related to colonialism. Altogether, these patterns suggest continuity of some daily practices despite disruptions to other aspects of life.

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作为日常实践的薪材收集：北卡罗来纳州皮埃蒙特殖民时期的木炭研究

摘要 欧洲的殖民化给整个东南部的土著群体带来了无数的变化和选择。学者们继续研究社区应对这些破坏的各种方式。研究日常实践的遗迹为了解社区如何协商连续性和变化提供了一个窗口。木炭代表日常火灾的遗迹，提供了一种重要但未被充分利用的方法，用于检查人们的日常生活和与周围景观的互动。本文研究了来自北卡罗来纳山麓几个地点的木炭组合，这些地点跨越了早期殖民时期（公元 1400-1705 年）。薪材收集模型用于考虑影响木炭组合组成的环境、实践和偏好。这些数据集的比较显示了高质量薪材选择的一致显着模式以及可能与长期使用相同环境和与殖民主义相关的因素相关的其他模式。总而言之，这些模式表明，尽管生活的其他方面受到了干扰，但某些日常实践的连续性。