| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 698 pages) : illustrations |
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2009 Springer E-Books
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| Contents |
A North American perspective on race and class in historical archaeology / Jamie C. Brandon -- Ethical issues in historical archaeology / Mary C. Beaudry -- Colonies, colonialism, and cultural entanglement : the archaeology of post-Columbian intercultural relations / Kurt A. Jordan -- Landscape approaches in historical archaeology : the archaeology of places / Nicole Branton -- Historical archaeology and the environment : a North American perspective / Donald L. Hardesty -- An update on zooarchaeology and historical archaeology : progress and prospects / David B. Landon -- Going, going, gone : underwater cultural resources in decline / Donald H. Keith and Toni L. Carrell -- Preparing for an afterlife on earth : the transformation of mortuary behavior in nineteenth-century North America / Charles H. LeeDecker -- Making historical archaeology postcolonial / Mark P. Leone -- The current state and future prospects of theory in European post-medieval archaeology / Paul Courtney -- Beyond consumption : toward an archaeology of consumerism / Teresita Majewski and Michael Brian Schiffer -- Artifacts and personal identity / Carolyn L. White and Mary C. Beaudry -- Darwinism and historical archaeology / Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman -- World-systems theory, networks, and modern-world archaeology / Charles E. Orser Jr. -- Wholes, halves, and vacant quarters : ethnohistory and the historical method / Paul R. Picha -- Industrial archaeology / Patrick E. Martin -- Studying the archaeology of war : a model based on the investigation of frontier military sites in the American trans-Mississippi west / Douglas D. Scott -- Men-women and children : gender and the structuring of historical archaeology / Andrea C. Vermeer -- Interpretive historical archaeologies / Laurie A. Wilkie -- Asian American studies in historical archaeology / Edward Staski -- Family resemblances : a brief overview of history, anthropology, and historical archaeology in the United States / Barbara J. Little -- The archaeology of La Florida / Charles R. Ewen -- Historical archaeology in South America / Pedro Funari, Andrés Zarankin, and Melisa A. Salerno -- Historical archaeology in central and northern Mesoamerica : development and current status /Thomas H, Charlton, Patricia Fournier, and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton -- Historical archaeology in Yucatan and Central America / William R. Fowler -- Archaeologies, of the African diaspora : Brazil, Cuba, and the United States / Theresa Singleton and Marcos André Torres de Souza -- On the fringes of New Spain : the northern borderlands and the Pacific / Russell K. Skowronek -- Exploration, exploitation, expansion, and settlement : historical archaeology in Canada / Dena Doroszenko -- An embarrassment of riches? : post-medieval archaeology in Northern and Central Europe / David Gaimster -- The development of post-medieval archaeology in Britain : a historical perspective / Geoff Egan -- The practice and substance of historical archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa / Natalie Swanepoel -- A sea of diversity : historical archaeology in the Caribbean / Douglas V. Armstrong and Mark W. Hauser -- French colonial archaeology / Gregory A. Waselkov -- Natives and newcomers in the Antipodes : historical archaeology in Australia and New Zealand / Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies -- Above and beyond ancient mounds : the archaeology of the modern periods in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean / Uzi Baram |
| Summary |
In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our predecessors. Prehistorians generally rely almost exclusively on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative¡methods to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather to an approach that interrogates the tensions between artifacts and texts irrespective of context. In short, historical archaeology provides direct evidence for how humans have shaped the world we live in today.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ The 35 essays in the International Handbook of Historical Archaeology have been specially commissioned from¡leading researchers in their fields, creating a wide-ranging digest of the increasingly global field of historical archaeology that will be an essential addition to any library. Authors include both senior and junior scholars and represent¡the major sectors where historical archaeologists are employed today--the cultural resource/heritage management industry, universities, government agencies, ¡and museums.¡The volume is divided into two sections, the first reviewing the key themes, issues, and approaches of historical archaeology today, and the second containing a series of case studies charting the development and current state of historical archaeological practice around the world.¡The contributions to the handbook include unique topical and regional syntheses not found in historical archaeological compendia published to date. This key reference work captures the energy and diversity of this global discipline today, and its format and content are particularly suitable for classroom use |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Archaeology and history.
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Archaeology and history -- Case studies
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historical archaeology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Archaeology and history.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Archaeology and history
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Majewski, Teresita.
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Gaimster, David R. M.
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| ISBN |
9780387720715 |
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0387720715 |
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0387720685 |
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9780387720685 |
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1282288253 |
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9781282288256 |
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9786612288258 |
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6612288256 |
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