Providence -- 1649 opens a fascinating window on the material culture of daily life in the seventeenth-century Puritan settlement on the Severn River. Using artifacts from Maryland and Dutch paintings, this booklet reveals the significance of Dutch goods and building techniques in colonial Maryland.

"Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in any particular case whether a site known primarily through archaeological work has sufficient "historical significance" to be listed....