Anna,

Have you considered using the reader on material culture that the SHA has
published?  It has a number of reprinted articles at a reasonable price for
students.

Peace,
George L. Miller

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Anna Agbe-Davies <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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
>
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