ABSTRACT

Plants and foodways have long been recognized for their importance to the construction of identity and culture in plantation settings. Yet despite this focus on plants and foodways in plantation archaeology, there is a need for more archaeological documentation of the types of plants and fields being cultivated in newly formed plantations in the New World. We combine historical documentation with an assemblage of recovered plant remains from the Lord Ashley site (38DR83a) to examine plant use during the formative years of a plantation economy. A renewed focus on experimental cropping in the New World plantation system at this site, along with one of the most well documented enslaved African populations before the 1690s in South Carolina, point to the influence of cross-cultural entanglements in building New World agricultural systems. The recovery of watermelon, an African cultivar, found alongside an assemblage of artifacts and other archaeobotanical remains associated with the enslaved Africans at the site, also point to the role of first-generation Africans in establishing New World foodway traditions.

摘要

长期以来，植物和食道因其对种植园环境中身份和文化建设的重要性而得到认可。然而，尽管在种植园考古学中关注植物和食道，但仍需要更多关于新世界新形成的种植园中种植的植物和田地类型的考古记录。我们将历史文献与从阿什利勋爵遗址 (38DR83a) 回收的植物遗骸组合相结合，以检查种植园经济形成时期的植物使用情况。重新关注该地点新世界种植园系统的试验性种植，以及南卡罗来纳州 1690 年代之前记录最充分的非洲奴役人口之一，表明跨文化纠缠对建立新世界农业系统的影响。