Author: Beaudry, Mary Carolyn ; editor:
Title: Documentary Archaeology in the New World
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2003). reprint. 29x20cm, 218 pp, PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Designed to appeal to a broad spectrum of archaeologists and historians, Documentary Archaeology in the New World outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America which places history alongside anthropology, cultural geography, and a whole range of cognate disciplines. The authors' common belief is that historical archaeologists must develop their own frameworks for interpretation through exhaustive documentary research rather than simply borrow models from colleagues working in the prehistoric past" - Publisher's description. [Contents: Archaeology is Not Enough: Legends, houses, families and myths: relationships between material culture and American ideology; Perceptions of an artifact: Chinese porcelain in colonial Tidewater Virginia; Documentary insights into the archaeology of smuggling;Words for things: linguistic analysis of probate inventories; Documents and the Archaeologist: The Data Base: Artifacts are not enough; The behavioural context of probate inventories: an example from Plymouth colony; Occupational differences reflected in material culture; On the use of historical maps; Military records and historical archaeology; The material culture of the Christian Indians of New England, 1650-1775; Anthropological title searches in Rockbridge County, Virginia; Ecological Questions In Historical Archaeology: Farming, fishing, whaling, trading: land and sea as resource on eighteenth-century Cape Cod; Seasonality: an agricultural construct...

Keywords: New World Archaeology, United States, Material Culture, Archeology, History, Antiquities, , ,