OK; you've got me with egg all over my face.  The HA articles would be the
most accessible, as well as the most concise, and I should know, having
reviewed the SHA reader a few years ago.  Entirely slipped my mind, which
comes of answering your e-mail at the end of a week's illness.  I shall eat
crow for lunch today, and a tasty dish it will be!
 
 
 
 
 
At 10:40 PM 3/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>David Babson--
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>Unfair!  At least some of the results of the Historic St. Mary's City's
>research is widely available through publication in the journal Historical
>Archaeology!!!!!  There you might find at least two articles on midden
>analysis incorporating soil chemistry with artifact frequency.  There's the
>article by Julia King & Henry Miller on the Van Sweringen site (reprinted
>in the SHA reader on material culture) and the one by  Gibb & King in the
>1991 issue on gender edited by Donna Seifert.  There is also, of course,
>Robert Keeler's dissertation on soil chemistry at the St John's site.
>
>Sorry I don't have the exact citations to hand.
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>MCB
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