A hierarchy of servitude: ceramics at Lake Innes Estate, New South Wales

• Autores: Alasdair Brooks
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 81, Nº 311, 2007, págs. 133-147
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A British colonial estate in eastern Australia, built by 1830 and abandoned 20 years later, survives as the ruins of the Big House surrounded by stables, a farm and servants' quarters. The authors recovered pottery assemblages from a number of different servants' dwellings and here show that they differed from each other, revealing a "hierarchy of servitude". It is natural to think that such a situation would provide helpful analogies for earlier empires, like the Roman, but historical archaeology has its own framework, varying even from country to country.