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Doing Historical Archaeology: Exercises Using Documentary, Oral, and Material Evidence

by Russell J. Barbar

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Appropriate for the upper level Historical Archaeology or Archaeological Field Methods courses taught in anthropology departments. 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 today.

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Appropriate for the upper level Historical Archaeology or Archaeological Field Methods courses taught in anthropology departments. 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 today.

Synopsis:

This exercise book was assembled to provide you with a cross-section of the diverse sorts of things historical archaeologists do.

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Table of 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.

IV. THE ANALYSIS OF PORTABLE 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.

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ISBN:
9780131760332
Author:
Barbar, Russell J.
Author:
Barber, Russell
Author:
Barber, Russell J.
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
Location:
Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Subject:
Archaeology
Subject:
Archaeology and history
Subject:
Anthropology - General
Subject:
Archaeology-General
Copyright:
1994
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
647-1, 647-2
Publication Date:
February 1994
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
248
Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in 227 gr
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