Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake
edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little
The field of historical archaeology has changed dramatically over the years and archaeologists working in the Chesapeake have often been in the forefront of such changes. The chapters in this collection reflect the variety and complexity in historical archaeology in the Chesapeake, while a new prologue by the editors highlights some of the recent advances made by archaeologists working in the region. Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1994.
Introduction to the Percheron Press Edition Archaeological Perspectives: An Overview of the Chesapeake Region Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little I. EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT "Whereby We Shall Enjoy Their Cultivated Places" Stephen R. Potter and Gregory A. Waselkov Decorated Clay Tobacco Pipes from the Chesapeake: An African Connection Matthew C. Emerson Solid Statements: Architecture, Manufacturing, and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Virginia Ann B. Markell The Country's House Site: An Archaeological Study of a Seventeenth-Century Domestic Landscape Henry M. Miller Town Plans and Everyday Material Culture: An Archaeology of Social Relations in Colonial Maryland's Capital Cities Paul A. Shackel II. PLANTATION AND LANDSCAPE STUDIES Mount Vernon: Transformation of an Eighteenth-Century Plantation System Dennis J. Pogue "As Is the Gardener, So Is the Garden": The Archaeology of Landscape as Myth Elizabeth Kryder-Reid III. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE A Comparative Analysis of the New England and Chesapeake Herding Systems Joanne Bowen "Fashionable Sugar Dishes, Latest Fashion Ware": The Creamer Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Ann Smart Martin "She Was . . . an Example of Her Sex": Possibilities for a Feminist Historical Archaeology Barbara J. Little Antietam Furnace: A Frontier Ironworks in the Great Valley of Maryland Susan E. Winter The Archaeology of Ideology: Archaeological Work in Annapolis Since 1981 Mark P. Leone Current Archaeological Perspectives on the Growth and Development of Williamsburg Marley R. Brown III and Particia Samford IV. NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIFE How Sweet It Was: Alexandria's Sugar Trade and Refining Business Keith L. Barr, Pamela J. Cressey, and Barbara H. Magid Neighborhoods ad Household Types in Nineteenth-Century Washington, D.C.: Fannie Hill and Mary McNamara in Hooker's Division Charles D. Cheek and Donna J. Seifert Rural Landscape in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Chesapeake Julia A. King
Paul A. Shackel, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Barbara J. Little, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
- Edited by Barbara J Little
- Edited by Paul A Shackel
"The case-studies found in [this book] manifest the vigour and maturation of historical archaeology in the region as scholars bring fresh perspectives to museum- and preservation-oriented excavations, using evidence from historical sites to address a broad range of issues of concern to contemporary archaeologists." Mary Beaudry in Antiquity "This is a significant book worthy of close attention by colonial and federal American researchers. No longer can historians ignore historical archaeology as irrelevant to archival research and scholarship. The earth and its material culture evidence is an archive which is unbiased and invites accurate and exhaustive use." John Cotter in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "[Brings] historical archaeological research to archaeologists and to a broad audience of historians and material culture scholars. The volume's . . . breadth and representativeness offer readers a solid introduction to the field and its contributions to the study of historical American culture and material culture." LuAnn DeCunzo in Winterthur Portfolio "Shackel and Little's goal is 'to provide a representative collection of current substantive and theoretical contributions to historical archaeology in the Chesapeake Bay region' . . . and they have succeeded brilliantly. . . . This collection represents the best tradition of today's historical archaeology. . . . [I]t will be years before anyone supersedes their work in this volume." Charles E. Orser, Jr., in American Antiquity "Regional settlement demography is full of wisdom based on long experience and should make archaeologists of any period or region think hard about the scale, distribution and organisation of the populations who produced the architecture and artefacts documented by survey." --Robert Witcher, New Book Chronicle. Antiquity, 90 (2016)
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