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 n 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 is an American anthropologist and
a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College
Park.
Barbara J. Little is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
and an Affiliate of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
'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, 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, 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, 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., American Antiquity)
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