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The field of historical archaeology has changed dramatically over the years and archaeologists working in the Chesapeake have often been in the forefront of such changes. This book reflects the variety and complexity in historical archaeology in the Chesapeake, while a new prologue by the editors highlights some of the recent advances.
List of contents
CONTENTS: 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 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
About the author
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.
Summary
The field of historical archaeology has changed dramatically over the years and archaeologists working in the Chesapeake have often been in the forefront of such changes. This book reflects the variety and complexity in historical archaeology in the Chesapeake, while a new prologue by the editors highlights some of the recent advances.
