Documentary Archaeology in the New World
Documentary Archaeology in the New World
£32.00
GBPDesigned to appeal to a broad spectrum of archaeologists and historians, Documentary Archaeology in the New World outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America which places history alongside anthropology, cultural geography, and a whole range of cognate disciplines. The authors' common belief is that historical archaeologists must develop their own frameworks for interpretation through exhaustive documentary research rather than simply borrow models from colleagues working in the prehistoric past.
- Important advanced student text available in paperback for the first time
- Of interest to archaeologists and to historians of Colonial America
- Collection of well illustrated essays offering a variety of theoretical approaches
Reviews & endorsements
'… it is refreshing to see the archaeological and documentary record of the New World being used to challenge some of the myths of the American way … this is a valuable volume and should be read.' John Moreland, Man
'These essays prove unequivocably that historical archaeology has its own set of issues and techniques that are of value in and of themselves.' G. J. Gumerman, Choice
Product details
September 1993Paperback
9780521449991
228 pages
275 × 218 × 12 mm
0.523kg
48 b/w illus. 42 maps 29 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Archaeology is Not Enough:
- 1. Legends, houses, families and myths: relationships between material culture and American ideology Anne E. Yentsch
- 2. Perceptions of an artifact: Chinese porcelain in colonial Tidewater Virginia Julia B. Curtis
- 3. Documentary insights into the archaeology of smuggling Peter R. Schmidt, and Stephen A. Mrozowski
- 4. Words for things: linguistic analysis of probate inventories Mary C. Beaudry, Janet Long, henry M. Miller, Fraser D. Neiman, and Garry Wheeler Stone
- Part II. Documents and the Archaeologist: The Data Base:
- 6. Artifacts are not enough Garry Wheeler stone
- 7. The behavioural context of probate inventories: an example from Plymouth colony marley R. Brown III
- 8. Occupational differences reflected in material culture Kathleen J. Bragdon
- 9. On the use of historical maps Nancy S. Seaholes
- 10. Military records and historical archaeology Lawrence E. Babits
- 11. The material culture of the Christian Indians of New England, 1650–1775 Kathleen J. Bragdon
- 12. Anthropological title searches in Rockbridge County, Virginia H. Langhorne and lawrence E. Babits
- Part III. Ecological Questions In Historical Archaeology:
- 13. Farming, fishing, whaling, trading: land and sea as resource on eighteenth-century Cape Cod Anne e. yentsch
- 14. Seasonality: an agricultural construct Joanne Bowen
- Part IV. Consumerism, Status, Gender, and Ethnicity:
- 15. Classification and economic scaling of nineteenth-century ceramics george l. miller
- 16. For gentlemen of capacity and leisure: the archaeology of colonial newspapers stephen A. mrozowoski
- 17. What happened to the silent majority? Research strategies for studying dominant group material culture in late nineteenth-century California Mary Praetzellis, Adrian Praetzellis, and Marley r. brown III.
