Cod Fish and Cooking Pots: Research on Trade Routes of the French North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Champagne, Mallory, Losier, Catherine
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB) 2024
• Subjects: Commercial networks; material culture; Saint-Pierre et Miquelon; Martinique; Archaeological Anthropology; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol50/iss1/8; https://orb.binghamton.edu/context/neha/article/1549/viewcontent/NEHA_50_2021_08_ChampagneandLosierpp94to112.pdf; https://orb.binghamton.edu/context/neha/article/1549/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Fig_1_plan_du_port_1783.tiff; https://orb.binghamton.edu/context/neha/article/1549/filename/1/type/additional/viewcontent/Fig_2_Moreau_du_Temple_1788.tiff; https://orb.binghamton.edu/context/neha/article/1549/filename/2/type/additional/viewcontent/Fig_3_country_of_origin_provisioning.tiff; https://orb.binghamton.edu/context/neha/article/1549/filename/3/type/additional/viewcontent/Fig_4_function_frequency.tiff; https://orb.binghamton.edu/context/neha/article/1549/filename/4/type/additional/viewcontent/Fig_5_trade_routes_1788.tiff; https://orb.binghamton.edu/context/neha/article/1549/filename/5/type/additional/viewcontent/Fig_6_posited_network.tiff

The materiality of the French occupation at Anse à Bertrand, Saint-Pierre has been documented over three years of excavation to understand the commercial routes that provisioned the fisherman who inhabited the point from 1763 to 1815. By comparing the ceramics from that occupation to the temporally similar Habitation Crève Coeur in Martinique, the trade routes that connect France’s colonial territories can be further understood, highlighting the vitality of these labour forces to the French empire.