Hello HistArchers,

I'm building a new course (undergrad historical archaeology) for next 
year and I thought this might make an interesting topic for 
conversation, so after consulting the syllabi on the SHA webpage, I'm 
wondering:

What is the one book (besides In Small Things Forgotten--which is pretty 
much ubiquitous) that you like best for teaching an undergraduate course 
in historical archaeology? And, even more crucially, why?

I'll go first.  For me, there's no book like Uncommon Ground for the 
clarity and unfussiness of the writing, the balance between text and 
artifact data in the argument, and the clear social message of the 
entire project.

(Then again, I use it every year for another class, so I'm going to 
resist my impulse to include it on this syllabus, too!)

Happy Thursday, all,

Anna

-- 
Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
UNC-Chapel Hill
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115

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