Dear
HistArch,
In your
opinions, what are the classic must-reads for historic material culture identification
and analysis? What are the lab-related articles you always assign your new
employees or students and keep handy yourself when working on finds?
I’m
compiling a list to which my lab students can refer and thinking about what I require
them to read as introductions to historic-era lab work.
For
instance, for an 18th-19th c. site:
The MCD
section of: South,
Stanley. 1977 Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology. New York: Academic
Press.
At
least the British Ceramics section of: Noel Hume, Ivor 1970 A Guide to
Artifacts of Colonial America. New York: Knopf.
Binford,
Lewis R. 1978 [1961] A New Method of Calculating Dates from Kaolin Pipe Stem
Samples. In Historical Archaeology: A Guide to substantive and
theoretical contributions. R.L. Schuyler, ed. Pp. 66-67. Farmingdale, NY:
Baywood.
and
Jones,
Olive R.
1971 Glass Bottle Push-Ups and Pontil Marks.
Historical Archaeology 5(1):62-73.
Kenmotsu,
Nancy
1990 Gunflints: A Study. Historical Archaeology
24(2):92-124.
Miller,
George L.
2000 Telling Time for Archaeologists. Northeast
Historical Archaeology 29:1-22.
Miller,
George L., and Catherine Sullivan
1984 Machine-Made Glass Containers and the End of
Production for Mouth-Blown Bottles. Parks Canada Research Bulletin 171.
Sussman,
Lynne
1997 Mocha, Banded, Cat's Eye, and Other
Factory-Made Slipware. Boston: Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology.
Wells,
Tom
1998 Nail Chronology: The Use of Technologically
Derived Features. Historical Archaeology 32(2):78-99.
Light,
John D—A Field Guide to the Identification of Metal. Historical Archaeology.
Priess,
Peter J—Historic Door Hardware Historical Archaeology.
What
else? What about for other time periods?
Off- or
on-list responses appreciated! Thanks!
John
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John
M. Chenoweth
Assistant
Professor of Anthropology
University
of Michigan-Dearborn
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