Consumer Strategy and Household Consumption in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, USA
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2012
Department
Department of Social Sciences
Abstract
The Cripple Creek Mining District of Colorado (USA) was billed as "the World's Greatest Gold Camp" in the 1890s and was home to a multitude of men, women, and children who left behind a record of past consumer behavior. Examination of fourteen household archaeological assemblages provides insight into aspects of household consumption strategies and the negotiation of socioeconomic class relationships within the late nineteenth and early twentieth century mining communities in the American West. An analytical approach that combines the quantitative economic scaling of ceramics and faunal remains is used in combination with the qualitative analysis of entire assemblages to understand consumer strategies and the negotiation of class relationships between households in the district.
Publication Title
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Recommended Citation
Sweitz, S. R.
(2012).
Consumer Strategy and Household Consumption in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, USA.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology,
16(1), 227-266.
http://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-012-0174-1
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