ANTH 551 Graduate Seminar in Historical Archaeology

Course Bibliography

Abraham, Terry and Priscilla Wegars
2005   Respecting the Dead: Chinese Cemeteries and Burial Practices in the Interior Pacific Northwest.  In Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors, edited by Sue Fawn Chung and Priscilla Wegars, pp. 147-173.  Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

Anschuetz, Kurt F., Richard H. Wilshusen, and Cherie L. Scheick
2001   An Archaeology of Landscapes: Perspectives and Directions.  Journal of Archaeological Research, 9:157-211.

Armstrong, Douglas V.
2001   Attaining the Full Potential of Historical Archaeology, response to Charles E. Cleland’s “Historical Archaeology Adrift?”  Historical Archaeology, 35(2): 9-13.

Ballard, Hannah
2004   The Cultural Landscape Approach: A Methodological Case Study from Hite’s Cove, California, A Hard-Rock Gold Mining Site.  Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical and Underwater Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

Baxter, R. Scott
2008   The Response of California’s Chinese Populations to the Anti-Chinese Movement.  Historical Archaeology, 42(3):29-36.

Beaudry, Mary C., Lauren J. Cook, and Stephen A. Mrozowski
1991   Artifacts and Active Voices: Material Culture as Social Discourse, in The Archaeology of Inequality, edited by Randall H. McGuire and Robert Paynter, pages 150-191, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 

Brauner, David R., compiler
2000   Approaches to Material Culture Research for Historical Archaeologists, 2nd Edition.  Society for Historical Archaeology, California, PA.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth
2003   It’s a Material World: History, Artifacts, and Anthropology.  Annual Review of Anthropology 32:205-223.

Casella, Eleanor Conlin and James Symonds (editors)
2005   Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions.  New York: Springer Media.

Chung, Sue Fawn
1998   Their Changing World: Chinese Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910.  In Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community, edited by Ronald M. James and C. Elizabeth Raymond, pp. 203-228.  Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Chung, Sue Fawn and Priscilla Wegars, editors
2005   Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors.  Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

Chung, Sue Fawn and Priscilla Wegars
2005   Introduction. In Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors, pp. 1-17. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

Clark, Kate
2005   From Valves to Values: Industrial Archaeology and Heritage Practice.  In Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions, edited by Eleanor Conlin Casella and James Symonds, pp. 95-120.  New York: Springer Media.

Cleland, Charles E.
2001   Historical Archaeology Adrift?  Historical Archaeology 35(2):1-8.

2001   Reply to Douglas V. Armstrong, Lu Ann De Cunzo, Gregory A. Waselkov, Donald L. Hardesty, and Roberta S. Greenwood.  Historical Archaeology, 35(2):28-30.

Costello, Julia G.
1998   Bread Fresh From the Oven:  Memories of Italian Breadbaking in the California Mother Lode.  Historical Archaeology 32(1):66-73.

Crist, Thomas
2005   Babies in the Privy: Prostitution, Infanticide, and Abortion in New York’s Five Points District.  Historical Archaeology, 39(1):19-46.

Davidson, James M.
2004   Rituals Captured in Context and Time: Charm Use in North Dallas Freedmen’s Town (1869-1907), Dallas, Texas.  Historical Archaeology 38(2):22-54.

DeCorse, Christopher R.
2001   An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

De Cunzo, Lu Ann
2001   Comments on “Historical Archaeology Adrift? A Forum,” response to Charles E. Cleland’s “Historical Archaeology Adrift?”  Historical Archaeology, 35(2): 20-22.

Delle, James
1999   The Landscapes of Class Negotiations on Coffee Plantations in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica: 1790-1850.  Historical Archaeology, 33(1):136-158.

Deetz, James A.
1990   Prologue: Landscapes as Cultural Settlements. In Earth Patterns: Essays in Landscape Archaeology, edited by William Kelso and Rachel Most, pp. 1-4.  University Press of Virginia, Charlottseville. 

1995   Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

1996   In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life.  New York: Anchor Books. 

Dixon, Kelly J.
2005   Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City, Nevada.  Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Fagan, Brian
1998   Clash of Cultures, Second Edition.  Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Fee, Jeff
1993   Idaho’s Chinese Mountain Gardens. In Hidden Heritage, Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese, edited by Priscilla Wegars, pp. 65-96. New York: Baywood Publishing Company, Amityville, New York.

Fennell, Christopher
2007   Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World.  University Press of Florida. 

Fosha, Rose Estep and Christopher Leatherman
2008   The Chinese Experience in Deadwood, South Dakota.Historical Archaeology, 42(3):97-110.

Fox, Richard A., Jr. and Douglas D. Scott
1991   The Post-Civil War Battlefield Pattern: An Example from the Custer Battlefield.  Historical Archaeology 25(2):92-103.

Francaviglia, Richard F.
1991   Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America’s Historic Mining Districts.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Given, Michael
2004   Landscapes of Resistance.  Book Manuscript chapter based in paper, entitled, “Whiskey and Resistance: Illicit Distilling Sites in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Scottish Highlands,” presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Greenwood, Roberta S.
1978   The Overseas Chinese at Home: Life in a Nineteenth-Century Chinatown in California.  Archaeology 31(4):73-86.

1993   Old Approaches and New Directions: Implications for Future Research. In Hidden Heritage, Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese, edited by Priscilla Wegars, pp. 375-403. New York: Baywood Publishing Company, Amityville, New York.

2001   Historical Archaeology Adrift?: Comments from CRM/West, response to Charles E. Cleland’s “Historical Archaeology Adrift?”  Historical Archaeology, 35(2):25-27.

Hardesty, Donald L.
1980   Historic Sites Archaeology on the Western American Frontier: Theoretical Perspectives and Research Problems.  North American Archaeologist 2(1):67-82.

1988   The Archaeology of Mining and Miners: A View from the Silver State.  Society for Historical Archaeology Special Publications Series Number 6. 

1990   Evaluating Site Significance in Historical Mining Districts. Historical Archaeology 24(2):42-51.

1991a  Historical Archaeology in the American West.  Historical Archaeology 25(3):3-6.

1991b  Toward an Historical Archaeology of the Intermountain West.  Historical Archaeology 25(3):29-35.

1994a  A Management Plan for Comstock Era Cultural Resources in the Lake Tahoe Basin.  Unpublished report prepared for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, South Lake Tahoe, California.

1994b  Class, Gender Strategies, and Material Culture in the Mining West.  In Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in Historical Archaeology, edited by Elizabeth M. Scott, pp. 129-145.  Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

1997   The Archaeology of the Donner Party.  Reno: University of Nevada Press.

1998   Gender and Archaeology on the Comstock.  In Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community, edited by Ronald M. James and C. Elizabeth Raymond, pp.283-302.  Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. 

2001   Comments on “Historical Archaeology Adrift?”, response to Charles E. Cleland’s “Historical Archaeology Adrift?”  Historical Archaeology, 35(2):23-24.

2002   Annales and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Western Mining History.  Paper presented to the Western History Association, 2002. 

2003   Mining Rushes and Landscape Learning in the Modern World. In Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation, edited by Marcy Rockman and James Steele, pp. 81-95.  London: Routledge.

Hardesty, Donald L. and Don D. Fowler
2001   Archaeology and Environmental Change.  In New Directions in Anthropology and Environment, edited by Carole L. Crumley, pages 72-89.  Walnut Creek, California: Altamira Press.    

Hardesty, Donald L. and Barbara J. Little
2000   Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians.  Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

Hattori, Eugene M., and Maria A. Thompson
1987   Using Dendrochronology for Historical Reconstruction in the Cortez Mining District, North Central Nevada. Historical Archaeology 21(2):60-73.

James, Ronald M.
1998   The Roar and the Silence: The Making of a Mining Community.  Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Knapp, Bernard, editor
1992   Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory.  New York: Cambridge University Press. 

Lawrence, Susan
2000   Dolly’s Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community.  Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Layton, Thomas N.
2002   Gifts of the Celestial Kingdom: A Shipwrecked Cargo for Gold Rush California.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Leone, Mark
1988   The Relationship Between Archaeological Data and the Documentary Record: Eighteenth-Century Gardens in Annapolis, Maryland. Historical Archaeology 22(1):29-35.

Lewis, Kenneth E.
2005   Camden: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Backcountry.  London: Thomasen-Wadsworth. 

Lightfoot, Kent G.
1995   Culture Contact Studies: Redefining the Relationship Between Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology.  American Antiquity 60:199-217.

2006   Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lightfoot, Kent G. and Antoinette Martinez
1995   Frontiers and Boundaries in Archaeological Perspective.  Annual Review of Anthropology 24:471-92.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson
1987   The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.  New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

Little, Barbara J. and Paul A. Shackel
1989   “Scales of Historical Anthropology: An Archaeology of Colonial Anglo-America.”  Antiquity, 63(238):495-509. 

McGuire, Randall H.
2002   A Marxist Archaeology.  New York: Percheron Press.

1982   The Study of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1:159-178.

Melnick, Robert Z.
1980   Preserving Cultural and Historic Landscapes: Developing Standards.  In Cultural Resource Management (CRM), National Park Service Technical Bulletin, Volume 3, Number 1.  U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Washington. D.C.

1985   Landscape Thinking.  In Cultural Resource Management (CRM), National Park Service Technical Bulletin, Volume 8, Number 1.  U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Washington. D.C.

Miller, George L.
1991   A Revised Set of CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of English Ceramics from 1787 to 1880.  Historical Archaeology 25(1):1-25.

Mrozowski, Stephen
1988   Historical Archaeology as Anthropology.  Historical Archaeology 22(1):18-24.

1993   The Dialectics of Historical Archaeology in a Post-Processual World, Historical Archaeology 27(2):106-111.  

Mrozowski, Stephen A., Grace H. Ziesling, and Mary C. Beaudry
1996   Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts. Amherst:University of Massachusetts Press.

Mullins, Paul R.
2008   The Strange and Unusual: Material and Social Dimensions of Chinese Identity.  Historical Archaeology, 42(3):152-157.

Murphy, Mary Martin
1997   Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Nassaney, Michael S.
2004   Men, Women, Pipes, and Power in Native New England.  In Smoking Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America, edited by Sean M. Rafferty and Rob Mann, pp. 125-141.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Nassaney, Michael S., Deborah L. Rotman, Daniel O. Sayers, and Carol A. Nickolai
2001    The Southwest Michigan Historic Landscape Project: Exploring Class, Gender, and Ethnicity from the Ground Up.  International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 5(3):219-261.

Noel-Hume, Ivor
1993   Historical Archaeology: A Comprehensive Guide, 6th printing.  New York: Alfred Knopf.

Novak, Shannon A.
2008   House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.  Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press.

Orser, Charles E., Jr.
2000   Taking the Pulse of Emerging Modernity.  International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 4(3):275-280.

2001   Anthropology in American Historical Archaeology.  American Anthropologist, Volume 103 (3):621-632.

2004   Historical Archaeology, 2nd edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, Prentice Hall.
Orser, Charles E., Jr., editor
2001   Race and the Archaeology of Identity.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Paynter, Robert
1999   Epilogue: Class Analysis and Historical Archaeology.  Historical Archaeology 33(1):184-195.

Praetzellis, Adrian and Mary Praetzellis
2001   Mangling Symbols of Gentility in the Wild West.  American Anthropologist, Volume 103(3):645-654.

Prince, Gene
1987   Photography for Discovery and Scale by Superimposing Old Photographs on the Present-day Scene.  Antiquity 62(234):112-116.

Rautman, Alison E. and Todd W. Fenton
2005 A Case of Historic Cannibalism in the American West:  Implications for Southwestern Archaeology. American Antiquity 70:321-341.

Ritchie, Neville
1993   Form and Adaptation: Nineteenth Century Chinese Miners' Dwellings in Southern New Zealand.  In Hidden Heritage, Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese, edited by Priscilla Wegars, pp. 335-373. New York: Baywood Publishing Company, Amityville, New York.

Robbins, William
1994   Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Rockman, Marcy and James Steele (editors)
2003   Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation.  New York: Routledge.

Rotman, Deborah L. and Michael S. Nassaney
1997   Class, Gender, and the Built Environment: Deriving Social Relationships from Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Michigan. Historical Archaeology 31(2):42-62.

Sahlins, Marshall
1983   Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History.  American Anthropologist 85(3):517-544.

Schmitt, Dave N, and Charles D. Zeier
1993   Not by Bones Alone: Exploring Household Composition and Socioeconomic Status in an Isolated Historic Mining Community.  Historical Archaeology 27(4):20-38.

Scott, Elizabeth M., editor
1994 Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in Historical Archaeology.  Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

Seifert, Donna
1991   Gender in Historical Archaeology: Introduction.  Historical Archaeology 25(4):1-5.

Silliman, Steve
2004   Lost Laborers In Colonial California: Native Americans and The Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

South, Stanley
2002   Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology.  New York: Percheron Press.

Spier, Robert F. G.
1958   Tool Acculturation Among 19th -Century California Chinese.  Ethnohistory 5(2):97-117.

Spude, Catherine Holder

2005   Brothels and Saloons: An Archaeology of Gender in the American West.  Historical Archaeology, 39(1):89-106.

Staski, Edward
1990   Studies of Ethnicity in North American Historical Archaeology.  North American Archaeologist 11(2):121-145.

Trinder, Barrie
1982   The Making of the Industrial Landscape.  London: J.M. Dent and Sons, London.

Voss, Barbara L.
2008   Between the Household and the World System: Social Collectivity and Community Agency in Overseas Chinese Archaeology.  Historical Archaeology, 42(3):37-52.

Voss, Barbara L. and Rebecca Allen
2008   Overseas Chinese Archaeology: Historical Foundations, Current Reflections, and New Directions.  Historical Archaeology, 42(3):5-28.

Voss, Barbara L. and Bryn Williams, editors
2008   The Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities.  Historical Archaeology, Volume 42, Number 3.

Waselkov, Gregory A.
2001   Historical Archaeology, with Sails Set and Tacking into the Wind, response to Charles E. Cleland’s “Historical Archaeology Adrift?”  Historical Archaeology, 35(2): 20-22.

Wegars, Priscilla
1991   Who’s Been Workin’ on the Railroad?: An Examination of the Construction, Distribution, and Ethnic Origins of Domed Rock Ovens on Railroad-Related Sites.  Historical Archaeology 25(1):37-65.

1993   Besides Polly Bemis: Historical and Artifactual Evidence for Chinese Women in the West, 1848-1930.  In Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese edited by Priscilla Wegars, pp. 229-254.  Amityville, NY: Baywood.

Wegars, Priscilla (editor)
1993   Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese.  Amityville, NY: Baywood.

1993   Introduction.  In Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese, edited by Priscilla Wegars, pp. xxiii-xxv.  Amityville, NY: Baywood.

Williams, Bryn
2008   Chinese Masculinities and Material Culture.  Historical Archaeology, 42(3):53-67.

Williams, Bryn and Barbara L. Voss
2008   Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities.  Historical Archaeology, 42(3):1-4.

Wurst, Lou Ann and Robert K. Fitts, editors
1999   Confronting Class Historical Archaeology 33(1):1-6. 

Yamin, Rebecca and Karen Bescherer Methany, editors
1996   Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Yang, Jeannie K. and Virginia R. Hellmann
1996   What’s in the Pot?  An Emic Study of Chinese Brown Glazed Stoneware.  Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 11:59-66.

Yu, Connie Young
2008   On Tracking Hua Kiu: A Chinese American Historian’s View.  Historical Archaeology, 42(3):158-163.

Online Sources:
Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA): www.sha.org

Publications pages on the SHA website with a searchable pdf option for journal articles; go to the link below, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the SHA Publications Explorer: http://www.sha.org/publications/default.htm

Research resources on sha.org: http://www.sha.org/research_resources/default.htm

  • Historical Artifact Conservation FAQs
  • Curation Standards
  • Historic Bottle Identififation
  • Parks Canada Publications
  • Newsletter Articles
  • Online Bibliographies (includes an Overseas Chinese bibliography!)

General Artifact Identification Resources:

Bottle Identification:
http://www.sha.org/bottle/

Brick (and tile) bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/brickbib.html

Button bibliography:
http://www.buttonimages.com/collector_info/bibliogr.htm
Cartridge and gun bibliographies:
http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/cartridg.html
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/gunbib.html

Catalogues (historic reprints) bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/catbib.html

Ceramic bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/cerambib.html

Foodways bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/foodbib.html

Fur Trade bibliography:
http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/furtrade.html

Glass bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/glassbib.html

Gunflint bibliography:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Documents/gunflints.html

Health/Hygiene bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/milmed.html

Horse Accoutrement bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/horsebib.html

Marble bibliography:
http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/marble.html

Military Uniforms/Buttons bibliography :
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/milcloth.html

Nail bibliography:
http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/nails.html

Pipe (smoking) bibliographies:
http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/pipe.html
http://www.claypipes.com/index.html

Rubber and plastic artifact bibliography:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/plastbib.html

Slag and metallurgy info:
http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/slag.html

Window and Flat Glass bibliography:
http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/glass.html

CONTACT

Instructor: Kelly J. Dixon

Office: Social Sciences Building, Room 232

Telephone:
406.243.2450

Email:
kelly.dixon@mso.umt.edu

Office hours:
Check office door or make an appointment

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