Full Description
This exercise book provides a cross-section of the diverse kinds of work that historical archaeologists actually do, and illustrates the different paradigms current in historical archaeology. The book guides students through exercises that draw on and develop the skills and concepts that historical archaeologists use in their research. It includes some exercises requiring field or laboratory work, uses realistic data sets and considers current historical archaeological paradigms.
Contents
Introduction. I. WRITTEN AND ORAL SOURCES. 1. Source Analysis. 2. Toponymy. 3. Oral History. 4. Probate Inventories and Acculturation. 5. Integrating Documents and Archaeological Data. II. SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATIGRAPHY. 6. Regional Settlement Pattern Analysis. 7. Analysis of Community Patterning. 8. Social Analysis of Architecture. 9. Stratigraphy. III. FOODWAYS. 10. Faunal Analysis. 11. Inferring Alcohol Usage from Artifacts. 12. Artifact Identification. 13. Typology. 14. Pipestem Dating. 15. Mean Ceramic Dating. 16. Similiary Seriation. 17. Functional Analysis. V. CEMETERY STUDIES. 18. Frequency Seriation with Grave Marker Data. 19. Cemetery Demography. 20. Estimation of Social Status with Cemetery Data. 21. Inferring Ideology from Grave Markers. Appendix A. Planning Your Research. Appendix B. Sampling. Appendix C. Basic Descriptive Statistics and Other Relevant Arithmetic. Appendix D. Writing Your Reports. Appendix E. Glossary of Terms Used to Describe Cemeteries and Grave Markers.
