Doing Historical Archaeology Exercises Using Documentary, Oral, and
Material Evidence Russell Barber 1994 Prentice Hall

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Students enjoy the cemetery section especially as a practice field
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Elizabeth Newman <
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> Great question, Anna!  Thanks for asking it!
>
> I don’t know if you were thinking monographs or textbooks, but I’m going
> to assume the former since that is what you gave examples of.  The two you
> mention would have been my first and second answers, as well, as those are
> the two books that, together, made me decide to become a historical
> archaeologist.
>
> Other than those, I would have to say my third favorite is Johnson’s “An
> Archaeology of Capitalism.”  Though I don’t exactly teach historical
> archaeology these days, I do teach a graduate seminar in material culture,
> which is basically "intro to historical archaeology for historians.”  I use
> Johnson’s book in it because, one, I love the book, and two, I think it
> does a great job of illustrating how documents, maps, landscapes,
> architecture, etc. are all artifacts too.  It is great for the historians
> because it bridges the gap between materials they are familiar with and
> methods/perspectives they aren’t, but I think it is equally important for
> archaeology students to remember that in historical archaeology documents
> are part of the data set (and not just as something to be read and quoted,
> but something to be analyzed and examined).
>
> Best,
> Elizabeth
>
>
> Elizabeth Terese Newman, Phd
> Assistant Professor of History, Stony Brook University
> www.elizabethnewman.org
>
> Check out my new book, Biography of a Hacienda (University of Arizona
> Press 2014).
>
>
>
> > On 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
> >
> > --
> > Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Ph.D.
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of Anthropology
> > UNC-Chapel Hill
> > CB # 3115 / 301 Alumni Building
> > Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
> >
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