It depends:  Is it an artifact/lab course or is it a general (what 
historical archaeology has to tell us about the Modern World) course?

Bob Schuyler


On 10/16/2014 10:47 AM, Anna Agbe-Davies 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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