Deetz's "Flowerdew Hundred" is a synopsis of the result of
twenty-five years of archaeological investigations at Flowerdew
Hundred, a former plantation on the south side of the James River
in Prince George County, Virginia. Throughout the work, Deetz
conveys the importance of combining historiography and archaeology
to a reach a better understanding of the past. This
multidirectional approach is displayed as Deetz examines
smoking-pipe stems, Colono-ware pottery, and post-in-ground
buildings at Flowerdew. Through examining regional history of the
Chesapeake, comparing the Flowerdew archaeological record with that
along the eastern seaboard (particularly in regards to icehouses
and pits), and looking at the architecture of Salem, South Africa,
Deetz is able to construct a contextual history of Flowerdew in the
seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. For
archaeologists, amateurs, and the general public, the book
simplistically relays the intertwining of history, archaeology and
folk studies and, of course, reveals a glimpse into life on a
Virginia plantation.
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