About Connections: A Brief Overture to Smoking and Pipes in Historical Archaeology

This book presentation offers a brief overview of pipe making in Europe, from its early days to the nineteenth century, and a discussion on how these products connected global markets and consolidated smoking practices. Considering how archaeology has studies these pipes throughout the decades, this chapter highlights some of the main discussion themes, such as determining chronology, identifying production techniques, sourcing pipe types, global markets and connections, and expressions of identity and ethnicity. Lastly, it situates the other chapters from this book in this scenario.