Thanks to all who responded to my query regarding lab manuals for
historical archaeology. Several people requested that I post the results:
Russell J. Barber
1994 Doing Historical Archaeology. Prentice Hall
Canadian Park Service
1992 Classification System for Historical Collections. Canadian Parks
Service, Ottawa.
The Cultural Resources Group
1996 Analytical Coding System for Historic Period Artifacts. Louis
Berger& Associates.
Hodges, Henry
1976 Artifacts: An introduction to early materials and technology.
John Baker, Bedford Row, London.
Plenderleith, H. J. and A. E. A. Werner
1976 The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art: Treatment,
Repair and Restoration. Oxford University Press, London.
Schlereth, Thomas
1996 " Artifacts and the American Past" AltaMira Press
Schlereth, Thomas (editor)
1999 "Material Culture Studies in America" AltaMira Press
Sease, Catherine
1992 A Conservation Manual for the Field Archaeologist. Institute of
Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Other, less specific, responses include the following:
>Sonoma State University (California) put together a very nice project
>(field/research/lab) manual for the Cypress Project. Check with Adrian
>Praetzellis--sorry, don't have his address/email reference with me. Then
>there's the IMAC (?) manual, used by feds (BLM, others?) in the
>intermountain west (Utah, Nevada, etc.).
>The Center for Spanish Colonial Archaeological has just republished its
lab
>manual (4th or 5th edition I believe).
Rob Mann
Anthropology Department
SUNY- Binghamton
Binghamton, New York
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