>>One of my difficulties has been is finding up to date sources on this
subject.<<
 
Iain:
You may be having difficulty finding recent sources because as historians have
begun using social scientific terminology and methodology, and as archaeologists
begin to make broader use of the work of historians, and as the positivist
rhetoric of the 1960s "New Archaeology," fades, not as many archaeologists
(particularly historical archaeologists) see themselves as being fundamentally
opposed to historians.  Prehistorians are another matter.  Their theory and
methodologies are designed to work in the absence of documents, and they are
often still sceptical of historians. This also applies to some historical
archaeologists who entered the discipline from prehistory, when they were too
old to learn new tricks.  There are several edited volumes on the subject of the
use of documents in archaeology that might have something for you.  One is
called Documentary Archaeology in the New World, Mary Beaudry, ed., published by
Cambridge, and another is Text-Aided Archaeology, Barbara Little, ed.,
published, I believe, by CRC Press.
Lauren J. Cook