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<strong>10</strong>4<br />
For a num<strong>be</strong>r <strong>of</strong> reMr. na all elements <strong>of</strong> material e ulm are preserved in the<br />
archaeological record. panieulady thore made <strong>of</strong> organic mucrialr such as wad. leather<br />
or wwl. Conversely. durable item made fmm imn or pewter m not easily bmh and<br />
therefore arc less likely to <strong>be</strong> discarded. When meld objccls did get broken, worn wt or<br />
outdated. they were <strong>of</strong>ten recycled into something else r. they were at the revsntcenlh-<br />
century French fon at Penragaet. Maine (Faulher and Faulhner 1987: 135).<br />
Fonunalely for archamlogirtr, ceramic veswls. glass bottles and tobacco piper do break<br />
md get tossed away. Similarly, when no longer uwful or perhaps emlerrly dropped or<br />
abandoned. metal objeels also enter the mhaeelogtcal record. When properly<br />
excavated. documented and identified, ychvalogical m ifw <strong>be</strong>come the uue<br />
represenmuan <strong>of</strong> the material e ulm urcd by the site's inhabitants and provide an<br />
impohlnt database from which the entire rite is analyzed. However, having said his, it is<br />
impohlnt to realize that the anifaet collEction in itself, should not <strong>be</strong> see" u the &fining<br />
representative <strong>of</strong> the past. It is most valuable when merged with historical doeumenfs.<br />
museum colleetianr and d other available sources to fully understand part eultunl<br />
activities and in a larger sense, rcciery as r whole.<br />
The Renews anifnet collection was approached in such a way as to damnine what it<br />
could reveal about four inter-reland aspects <strong>of</strong> sevenleenthrmnuy life in Renews, and<br />
by extenno", early colonial Newfoundland. The aspcts are: fwdways, hecolth m,