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Author Ford, Ben, author.

Title The shore is a bridge : the maritime cultural landscape of Lake Ontario / Ben Ford ; foreword by Kevin Crisman
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
Contents Intro; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Underlying Definitions, Assumptions, and Methods; Chapter 2 Lake Ontario, Its Geography and Names; Chapter 3 Early History of Lake Ontario; Chapter 4 The European Proliferation on Lake Ontario; Chapter 5 Lake Ontario Maritime Landscapes at the Human Scale; Chapter 6 Lake Ontario Maritime Landscapes at the Regional Scale; Chapter 7 The Maritime Landscape in the Present; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary With humans moving easily from water to land, the archaeology of the shore should likewise be seamless. This principle of the "seamlessness" of human interaction with the maritime environment undergirds author Ben Ford?s sweeping survey. In The Shore Is a Bridge: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario, Ford explores human interaction with the waters of the lake, spanning the international border, from 5,000 years ago to the early twentieth century. He interprets written and archaeological sources using a maritime cultural landscape approach to investigate how the perception of place influences the interaction between humans and the physical environment. Ford focuses on the lake shore, which served as a link between the maritime and terrestrial worlds of the people who lived around it. Lake Ontario was the first of the Great Lakes to be developed by Europeans, and it was part of the home ranges of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississauga, as well as other Native American groups known only from their archaeological remains. Consequently, Lake Ontario was at the heart of early Great Lakes maritime culture. Using terrestrial and submerged archaeological methods, history, and ethnography, the author meticulously weaves together previously disparate data to construct a cohesive and holistic understanding of this important region from ancient to modern times. The Shore Is a Bridge presents a new way to interpret the maritime archaeological record and maritime culture by synthesizing archaeological data, historical documents, and oral histories into an all-inclusive view of the lakeshore
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 17, 2018)
Subject Historic sites -- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)
Social archaeology -- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)
Cultural landscapes -- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)
Underwater archaeology -- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)
Indians of North America -- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Antiquities
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Cultural landscapes
Historic sites
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Social archaeology
Underwater archaeology
SUBJECT Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) -- History
Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) -- History, Naval
Subject Lake Ontario
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781623496067
1623496063