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<p>While today Cape Cod is associated with the North Atlantic Ocean and Cape Cod Bay, which surround it, the present-day landscape is more the result of the last 350 years of colonization than the natural environment. As seen by the earliest European inhabitants, the land was rich farmland, but was quickly transformed into sandy wastes, forcing a switch to a maritime-based economy, with broad social implications. Using the ca. 1645 Doane site in Eastham, Massachusetts, now part of Cape Cod National Seashore, as a case study that dates to the earliest phase of this transition, this article explores the economic, social, and religious aspects of the transition. Excavations at the Doane site in 2019 and 2022, coupled with the reexamination of earlier finds, yielded a great deal of information about the structure built by the Doane family and its furnishings. Viewed through artifact distributions, phytolith analysis, and landscape analysis, we suggest that religiously informed views of both the domestication of and fear of the “wild,” as well as social concerns with status and community perceptions, underwrote surprising choices about the use of marine resources and hunted game.</p>

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Landscapes and Seascapes of Early Colonialism in the Plymouth Colony: A Case Study of the Doane Site

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    2025年6月1日

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  • John M. Chenoweth,
  • Anya Gruber

摘要

While today Cape Cod is associated with the North Atlantic Ocean and Cape Cod Bay, which surround it, the present-day landscape is more the result of the last 350 years of colonization than the natural environment. As seen by the earliest European inhabitants, the land was rich farmland, but was quickly transformed into sandy wastes, forcing a switch to a maritime-based economy, with broad social implications. Using the ca. 1645 Doane site in Eastham, Massachusetts, now part of Cape Cod National Seashore, as a case study that dates to the earliest phase of this transition, this article explores the economic, social, and religious aspects of the transition. Excavations at the Doane site in 2019 and 2022, coupled with the reexamination of earlier finds, yielded a great deal of information about the structure built by the Doane family and its furnishings. Viewed through artifact distributions, phytolith analysis, and landscape analysis, we suggest that religiously informed views of both the domestication of and fear of the “wild,” as well as social concerns with status and community perceptions, underwrote surprising choices about the use of marine resources and hunted game.