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

by Barber, Russell J.

ISBN13:
9780131760332
ISBN10:
0131760335
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1994-02-16
Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

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.

Introduction
Written and Oral Sources
Source Analysis
Toponymy
Oral History
Probate Inventories and Acculturation
Integrating Documents and Archaeological Data
Spatial Analysis and Stratigraphy
Regional Settlement Pattern Analysis
Analysis of Community Patterning
Social Analysis of Architecture
Stratigraphy
Foodways
Faunal Analysis
Inferring Alcohol Usage from Artifacts
The Analysis of Portable Artifacts
Artifact Identification
Typology
Pipestem Dating
Mean Ceramic Dating
Similiary Seriation
Functional Analysis
Cemetery Studies
Frequency Seriation with Grave Marker Data
Cemetery Demography
Estimation of Social Status with Cemetery Data
Inferring Ideology from Grave Markers
Planning Your Research
Sampling
Basic Descriptive Statistics and Other Relevant Arithmetic
Writing Your Reports
Glossary of Terms Used to Describe Cemeteries and Grave Markers
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