Glass in the Landscape of the Great Dismal Swamp

This thesis seeks to illuminate the movement of material goods and people through the socially and physically complex landscape of the Great Dismal Swamp and in so doing to expose some of the detail obscured by existing maps and popular conceptions of the area. Multiple lines of evidence, including ultraviolet fluorescence of glass artifacts and details gleaned from a variety of maps and remote sensing images of the area, contextualize the presence of historic glass at archaeological sites representing canal adjacent enslaved laborer camps and interior maroon settlements. A landscape archaeology perspective foregrounding people, time-depth and scale guides the analysis of glass distribution amongst five historic sites.