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Publisher
Society for Historical Archaeology
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first part of Volume I includes a guide to further research, a new Primer on Historic Ceramics, discussions of the lifecourse of objects as they are used and reused, fragmentation and "missing" artifacts, and central information on dating. Part two presents methods of analysis unique to historical archaeology, such as Binford's Pipe Stem Dating or South's Mean Ceramic Dating formulas in their original forms (updates are discussed in chapter one),...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c. AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource...
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For decades archaeologists have limited studies of frontiers and colonialism to a single polity, empire, or epoch. This has been especially true of historical archaeologists; but in this intriguing collection, Beaule assembles archaeologists from around the world to determine the commonalities and differences of colonialism across the self-imposed divide of contact v. pre-contact. The work considers the expanding frontiers of the Romans, Iroquois,...
Series
Occasional paper volume no. 41
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In Patina, anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy examines what was lost and found through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Tracking the rich history and unique physicality of New Orleans, she explains how it came to adopt the nickname "the antique city." With innovative applications of thing theory, Patina studies the influence of specific items--such as souvenirs, heirlooms, and Hurricane Katrina ruins--to explore how the city's residents use material...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, Paul Mullins examines a wide variety of material objects and landscapes that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us, looking at the way the material world shapes how we imagine, express, and negotiate difficult historical experiences"--
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