Images of the recent past : readings in historical archaeology / edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orser, Charles E., Jr., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Archaeology and history--United States.

United States.

United States--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

477 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Ca. : Alta Mira Press, [1996]

Contents:

Avenues of inquiry in historical archaeology / Kathleen Deagan

People with history : an update on historical archaeology in the United States / Barbara J. Little

The archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale : our first 15 years / David Hurst Thomas

A scant urbanity : Jamestown in the 17th century / Kathleen Bragdon, Edward Chappell, and William Graham

The material world of the Revolutionary War soldier at Valley Forge / Michael Parrington, Helen Schenck, and Jacqueline Thibaut

The archaeology of slave life / Theresa A. Singleton

The overseas Chinese in El Paso : changing goals, changing realities / Edward Staski

Mrs. Starr's profession / Donna J. Seifert

17th and 18th century lead-glazed redwares in the Massachusetts Bay Colony / Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh

Factors influencing consumer behavior in turn-of-the-century Phoenix, Arizona / Susan L. Henry

Struggling with pots in South Carolina / Leland Ferguson

Artifacts and active voices : material culture as social discourse / Mary C. Beaudry, Lauren J. Cook, and Stephen A. Mrozowski

Pollen record formation processes at the Isles of Shoals : botanical records of human behavior / Gerald K. Kelso and Faith Harrington

A faunal analysis of home butchering and meat consumption at the Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona / Christine R. Szuter

Archaeology and forensic anthropology of the human remains from the Reno retreat crossing, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana / Douglas D. Scott and Clyde Collins Snow

Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology : using the rules of perspective in the William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland / Mark P. Leone

Plantation settlement from slavery to tenancy : an example from a Piedmont plantation in South Carolina / Charles E. Orser, Jr. and Annette M. Nekola

Over-hunting and local extinctions : socio-economic implications of fur trade subsistence / Scott Hamilton

Historic sites archaeology in Mexico / Patricia Fournier-Garcia and Fernando A. Miranda-Flores

Historical archaeology in the Western Cape / Martin Hall and Ann Markell

Tobacco pipes, cotton prices, and progress / Neil Asher Silberman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0761991417

0761991425

OCLC:

34651373