Designed 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 that 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. Specific topics examined include urban archaeology, historical ecology, consumerism, smuggling, folk classifications, gender relations, ethnicity, seasonality and ideology. This volume will serve both as a guide to the available techniques of documentary analysis and as a source for the innovative interpretation of historical archaeological materials anywhere in the world.
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"...remains one of the classic volumes within historical archaeology due to the unique approaches to documentary data that it advocates....This volume has withstood seven years of scholarly scrutiny and remains an important collective work..." Annals of the Association of American Geographers
"...this book contains essays reflecting some of the best research in documentary archaeology in the New World today." American Anthropologist
"...a fascinating collection of essays that chart the international nature of the archaeological record in colonial North America." Nick Sanders, New Scientist
"...this book contains essays reflecting some of the best research in documentary archaeology in the New World today." American Anthropologist
"...a fascinating collection of essays that chart the international nature of the archaeological record in colonial North America." Nick Sanders, New Scientist
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Designed to appeal to a broad spectrum of archaeologists and historians, this study outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America, placing history alongside anthropology and cultural geography.
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Peter Schmidt describes landscape 'as a series of images in which history is held' and notes how physical objects situated in the landscape call to mind the oral traditions of a people (Schmidt, personal communication). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New England, Cape Cod, Rhode Island, James River, Joseph Howland, Witte Leeuw, Westmoreland County, Christian Indians, Tidewater Virginia, United States, East India Company, Plymouth Colony, Martha's Vineyard, North Smithfield, Drake's Bay, Rockbridge County, Courtesy of Massachusetts State Library, New York, Narragansett Bay, North Carolina, North America, Providence Gazette, Centennial Exhibition, Great Island, Hancock's Resolution New!
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Peter Schmidt describes landscape 'as a series of images in which history is held' and notes how physical objects situated in the landscape call to mind the oral traditions of a people (Schmidt, personal communication). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cape sample size, export porcelain sherds, undecorated ironstone, ceramic advertisements, tavern assemblage, shell edge plates, price fixing lists, dining vessels, lexical grid, estate atlases, maps showing structures, ceramic prices, historical archaeologists, deed research, posset pot, probate inventories, excavated ceramics, eating vessels, upper cape, inventory taker, historical archaeology, ware types, tea equipage, tavern site, decorative types Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Cape Cod, Rhode Island, James River, Joseph Howland, Witte Leeuw, Westmoreland County, Christian Indians, Tidewater Virginia, United States, East India Company, Plymouth Colony, Martha's Vineyard, North Smithfield, Drake's Bay, Rockbridge County, Courtesy of Massachusetts State Library, New York, Narragansett Bay, North Carolina, North America, Providence Gazette, Centennial Exhibition, Great Island, Hancock's Resolution New!
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- Cape Cod (Penguin Nature Library) by Henry David Thoreau on 8 pages
- The Great Island by Michael L. Smith on 6 pages
- Rhode Island (13 Colonies) by Roberta Wiener on page 18, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rhode Island: Eight Poems by Michael S. Harper in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Chinese Armorial Porcelain by David Howard on page 31, and Back Matter
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- Material Culture and Consumer Society: Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia (The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology) by Mark Staniforth on 5 pages
- Familiar Past?: Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain by Sarah Tarlow on 5 pages
- Between Artifacts and Texts: Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Anders Andrén on 4 pages
- African Historical Archaeologies (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Andrew M. Reid on page 28, page 156, and page 373
- Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Eleanor C. Casella on page 133, and page 238
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