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     Old and New Worlds
     Historical / Post-Medieval Archaeology Papers from the Societies'
     joint conferences at Williamsburg and London 1997 to mark thirty years
     of work and achievement
     edited by Geoff Egan for SPMA and Ronn Michael for SHA

     Even before the Mayflower sailed across the Atlantic in 1620, the
     material and cultural lives of the `Old' and `New' worlds were
     inextricably linked. New ceramics, new foods, new ideas of space, even
     new types of tobacco pipe moved across the ocean and continued to
     spread over the next 400 years. This book reflects the techniques
     which archaeologists have used over the last thirty years to try and
     unravel, from this mass of material evidence, the lives of early
     Americans, and their English contemporaries. As well as shedding new
     light on the past, this book also discusses the unique methodologies
     which historical archaeologists (in both Britain and the US) have
     developed to study early modern and industrialized societies. The use
     of written sources to enrich archaeological evidence is
     well-established, but the papers in this book also discuss new
     theoretical approaches focusing on ethnicity and domestic space, and
     new practical techniques using environmental as well as artifactual
     evidence.

     Contents: Approaches to the Evidence: Different Strokes for Different
     Folks: The transAtlantic Development of Historical and Post Medieval
     Archaeology (Paul Courtney); The Centrality of Post Medieval Studies
     to General Historical Archaeology (Robert L Schuyler); The New
     Postmedieval Archaeology (Matthew Johnson); The Practice of American
     Historical Archaeology (Marley Brown III); Teaching and Learning Post
     Medieval Archaeology in Britain (Deirdre O'Sullivan). Communities of
     the Old and New Worlds: Row and Terrace (Roger H Leech); Lord
     Baltimore and the Meaning of Brick Architecture in 17th Century
     Maryland (Julia A King & Edward E Chaney); London: Axis of the
     Commonwealth? (Geoff Egan); Archaeology and Town Planning (Henry M
     Miller); Ethnohistory, Historical Archaeology, and the Rise of Social
     Complexity in Native North America: Case Studies in Southern New
     England (Kathleen J Bragdon);  Archives and Archaeology: The Ulster
     Plantations in the Landscape (Nick Brannon); Extending Europe's Grasp:
     An Archaeological Comparison of Colonial Spatial Processes in Ireland
     and Jamaica (James A Delle); The Archaeology of Domestic Life in Early
     America (Mary C Beaudry); The Archaeology of Ethnicity: An Example
     from Sacramento, California's Early Chinese District (Adrian
     Praetzellis); Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Production of
     Urban Industrial Space (Stephen A Mrozowski);  A Glimpse of the Colony
     of Avalon (James A Tuck, Barry Gaulton and Matthew Carter); The Recent
     Archaeology of Enslaved Africans and African Americans (Ywone D
     Edwards Ingram); St Kilda: Excavations in a 19th Century Hebridean
     Village (Norman Emery). Bridges and Divisions - Crossing the Seas and
     Military Operations: Echoes of Axes, Adzes and Pitsaws (Damian M
     Goodburn); Oceans of Destiny: Underwater Archaeology in the Americas
     (Robyn P Woodward); Guns and Guidance: The Late Stuart Ordnance Office
     and its American Connections (Geoffrey Parnell); Military Archaeology
     of America's Colonial Wars (David R Starbuck). Manufactured Goods:
     Production, Movement and Consumption: Cherishing the Cradle of
     Industry: Protection of Industrial Monuments in England (David
     Cranstone); From Icons to Ideology: A Perspective on Artefacts and
     Historical Archaeology in the Americas (Barbara J Little); The Post
     Medieval Ceramic Revolution in Southern Britain c.1450-1650 (David RM
     Gaimster);  The Ceramic Revolution 1650-1850 (David Barker); Post
     Medieval Redware Pottery of London and Essex (Beverley Nenk with
     Michael J Hughes); The Pottery Industry of the Surrey/Hampshire
     Borders in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Jacqueline Pearce); Tinglazed
     Ware in London: A Review (Roy Stephenson); A Review of the Donyatt
     Potteries, Somerset, with an Interim Report of its Products Recorded
     in the Colonies of America (Richard Coleman Smith); Producers,
     Distributors and Redistributors: The Role of the South Western Ports
     in the 17th Century Ceramics Trades (John Allan); Excavating the
     Pottery of John Bartlam: America's First Creamware Potter  (Stanley
     South); British Ceramics on the American Colonial Frontier 1760-1800
     (Teresita Majewski and Vergil E Noble); Little Tubes of Mighty Power:
     A Review of British Clay Tobacco Pipe Studies (David A Higgins);
     Traders, Indians, and Middlemen: The Foundations of the British North
     American Fur Trade (Charles E Cleland). Humans, Animals, Plants and
     Landscapes: The Study of Human Skeletal Remains from English Post
     Medieval Sites (Simon Mays); Archaeobotanical Evidence from London on
     Aspects of Post Medieval Urban Economies (John Giorgi); An Evaluation
     of Regional Differences in Colonial English Foodways (Charles D
     Cheek); The Chesapeake Landscape and the Ecology of Animal Husbandry
     (Joanne Bowen); `Of Cabbages - and Kings': Garden Archaeology in
     Action  (Brian Dix); Adding Content to Structure: Integrating
     Environment and Landscape (Lisa Kealhofer); Current Trends in the
     Archaeological Study of Post Medieval Landscapes in England: Context,
     Character and Chaos (Richard Newman).. 404p with many b/w pls(Oxbow
     Books, in association with the Society for Historical Archaeology and
     Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, 1999) 1900188929  Hb  $60.00

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