Abstract
Creolization was originally introduced to historical archaeology through the study of settler communities in Spanish Florida and African-American material culture recovered from plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry. Creolization is a productive concept for interpreting a diverse range of contexts in the South-particularly the multiethnic household. Creolization is briefly contextualized within ethnic or race relations theory within anthropology and sociology. Attention then turns to the archaeology and ethnography associated with multiethnic households. Multiethnic contexts considered consist of lowcountry plantations, settler households in Spanish Florida and the Caribbean, frontier residences in the South Carolina backcountry, Cherokee households in North Carolina, and multiracial communities in East Tennessee.
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Groover, M.D. Creolization and the archaeology of multiethnic households in the American South. Hist Arch 34, 99–106 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03373645
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