Documentary archaeology in the New World

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Introduction Part I. Archaeology is Not Enough: 1. Legends, houses, families and myths: relationships between material culture and American ideology Anne E. Yentsch 2. Perceptions of an artifact: Chinese porcelain in colonial Tidewater Virginia Julia B. Curtis 3. Documentary insights into the archaeology of smuggling Peter R. Schmidt, and Stephen A. Mrozowski 4. Words for things: linguistic analysis of probate inventories Mary C. Beaudry, Janet Long, henry M. Miller, Fraser D. Neiman, and Garry Wheeler Stone Part II. Documents and the Archaeologist: The Data Base: 6. Artifacts are not enough Garry Wheeler stone 7. The behavioural context of probate inventories: an example from Plymouth colony marley R. Brown III 8. Occupational differences reflected in material culture Kathleen J. Bragdon 9. On the use of historical maps Nancy S. Seaholes 10. Military records and historical archaeology Lawrence E. Babits 11. The material culture of the Christian Indians of New England, 1650-1775 Kathleen J. Bragdon 12. Anthropological title searches in Rockbridge County, Virginia H. Langhorne and lawrence E. Babits Part III. Ecological Questions In Historical Archaeology: 13. Farming, fishing, whaling, trading: land and sea as resource on eighteenth-century Cape Cod Anne e. yentsch 14. Seasonality: an agricultural construct Joanne Bowen Part IV. Consumerism, Status, Gender, and Ethnicity: 15. Classification and economic scaling of nineteenth-century ceramics george l. miller 16. For gentlemen of capacity and leisure: the archaeology of colonial newspapers stephen A. mrozowoski 17. What happened to the silent majority? Research strategies for studying dominant group material culture in late nineteenth-century California Mary Praetzellis, Adrian Praetzellis, and Marley r. brown III.

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