You can also look at:

Sprague, Roderick
1981 A Functional Classification for Artifacts from 19th and 20th Century
Historical Sites. North American Archaeologist 2(3):251-261.

It's not perfect, but you can adapt some of the categories into South's
classification scheme.

Cheers,
Tanya

Tanya A. Faberson, Ph.D., RPA 
Principal Investigator 
Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. 
151 Walton Avenue 
Lexington, KY 40508 
859-252-4737 (office) 
859-221-3038 (work cell) 
www.crai-ky.com 
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Larry
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Subject: Revisiting South's functional artifact categories

Our staff is working on the analysis of artifacts from a data recovery
project on a 1910s to 1940s lumber mill town, Ravensford, on the edge of
the Great Smoky Mountains in southwestern North Carolina.  The
collection includes over 170,000 artifacts from 22 distinct house lots,
commercial lots, and several dumps. 

 

We are trying to adapt South's functional category scheme to serve as an
intermediate step in the artifact analysis. We are tweaking it to
accommodate 20th century items as well as to try (as others have done)
to minimize the inherent problems in forcing certain multifunctional or
ambiguous items into fixed categories. 

 

We are looking for references to discussions (in publications, gray
literature, dissertations, or meeting presentations) of similar attempts
at broader functional categorization of historic period artifact
collections, based on South or other approaches. 

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions from list members.

 

 

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