Mark:

You won't find a better comparative work than that done by Sonoma State 
University on the Cypress Area recovery project, as cited by Adrian 
Praetzellis below. The University of Nebraska Press will be publishing a 
book next year that Robin Mills and I and others have edited, in which we 
used their work comparatively. We highly recommend you take a look at their 
work.

Cathy


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From: "Adrian Praetzellis" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:24 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Reference Request

> Our work in the San Francisco Bay area dealt came up with many many mostly
> working class collections from the era 1860-1910. Initially the problem 
> was
> deciding on a way of triaging them - in Oakland alone we found over 2500
> features that contained artifacts and we ended up keeping materials from
> about 120.
>
> Anyway, the reports are all posted at:
>
> http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/cypress/finalreport/index.htm
> http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/publications/sf80bayshore/index.htm
> http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/west_approach/index.html
>
> The collections are all cataloged using SHARD, which is available for
> download at http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/shard/index.html
>
> In the final report we used a variety of statistical indices to try to
> define the material indicators of social status (as indicated by wealth,
> occupation rank, etc.) which we call the Material Status Index. It turns 
> out
> that there is indeed a demonstrable statistically valid relationship 
> between
> social status and archaeologically derived artifacts but the relationship 
> is
> complex. Blah, blah, blah. I'll stop writing now...
>
> Adrian Praetzellis
> Sonoma State University
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Mark Branstner 
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> We are currently involved in a multi-year mitigation effort in East St.
>> Louis, Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis, Missouri. Although
>> most of the recovery effort is aimed a Cahokia-related Mississippian 
>> sites,
>> we are in the midst of recovering several hundred privy and trash 
>> features
>> related to working class occupation of the area surrounding the old East 
>> St.
>> Louis Stockyard complex. Although there is some late nineteenth century
>> material (ca. 1880-1900), an awful lof of the recoveries appear to relate 
>> to
>> the early twentieth century (ca. 1900-1930).
>>
>> I am very interested in learning of any comparables in the published or
>> gray literature ... i.e., large-scale recoveries of urban working class
>> deposits, with particular interest in the ca. 1880-1930 period. Any
>> documents covering research designs, research questions, and/or results
>> would be of major interest.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mark C. Branstner, RPA
>> Historic Archaeologist
>>
>> Illinois State Archaeological Survey
>> Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> 209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
>> 23 East Stadium Drive
>> Champaign, IL 61820
>>
>> Phone: 217.244.0892
>> Fax: 217.244.7458
>> Cell: 517.927.4556
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> "There's absolutely nothing wrong with Marxism, so long as you stop at "A
>> Day At The Races." If you keep on with "At the Circus," etc., suddenly,
>> Marxism doesn't seem all that interesting and you start to look for
>> something a bit more competent, like Chaplinism or Stoogeism"  - 
>> Anonymous
>>
>> "I hope there's pudding" - Luna Lovegood (HP5)
>>
>