"Elegantly demolishes the prevailing scholarly view that Seneca culture suffered gradual decline during the eighteenth century. Jordan has combined archaeology and history to provide us with a new and compelling picture of the Seneca."--William Engelbrecht, Buffalo State College "Jordan's archaeological approach to eighteenth-century Native American settlement patterns is original and creative. It sets a promising new standard for interdisciplinary investigations of the potential complexity underlying domestic and settlement choices."--Martha L. Sempowski, Rochester Museum and Science...
"Elegantly demolishes the prevailing scholarly view that Seneca culture suffered gradual decline during the eighteenth century. Jordan has combined ar...
"Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These communities represent a largely unrecognized, alternative declaration of independence. They are a part of world history that is truly revolutionary."--Mark P. Leone, author of The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital "Addresses key historical and theoretical debates of the archaeology of the African diaspora. Theoretically complex and methodologically rigorous, it is the first serious study to locate maroon groups in the...
"Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These communi...
A thorough and thoughtful analysis of the material dimensions of life along the color line. The collection helps us reimagine the ways race has shaped the apparently prosaic landscapes of the various reaches of the Northeast. Paul Mullins, author of The Archaeology of Consumer Culture A fantastic collection of cases and an amazing cross section of the research and relevance of historical archaeologies of race in a region often identified as free from such tainted pasts. Katherine Howlett Hayes, author of Slavery before Race Historical and archaeological evidence shows...
A thorough and thoughtful analysis of the material dimensions of life along the color line. The collection helps us reimagine the ways race has shaped...
A model for researching how religion shaped daily life that helps move the archaeology of religion beyond houses of worship and places of burial. Richard F. Veit, author ofDigging New Jersey s Past: Historical Archaeology in the Garden State Demonstrates convincingly that religious ideology specifically a lifestyle of temperance and simplicity as advocated by evangelical Christians was an important factor in the household consumption decisions in a small community in New York. Charles LeeDecker, Historic Preservation archaeologist In the early nineteenth century, antebellum...
A model for researching how religion shaped daily life that helps move the archaeology of religion beyond houses of worship and places of burial. Rich...
A major step forward in the effort to create and synthesize a body of formation theory for shipwreck sites by cataloguing the myriad factors affecting such sites across a number of academic fields, ranging from geology and oceanography to history and sociology. John M. O Shea, author of Ships and Shipwrecks of the Au Sable Shores Region of Western Lake Huron Multidisciplinary and international, this outstanding volume is simply the best single source available for shipwreck site formation processes. It should be in the working library of every underwater archaeologist and site...
A major step forward in the effort to create and synthesize a body of formation theory for shipwreck sites by cataloguing the myriad factors affecting...
Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These communities represent a largely unrecognized, alternative declaration of independence. They are a part of world history that is truly revolutionary. Mark P. Leone, author of The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital Addresses key historical and theoretical debates of the archaeology of the African diaspora. Theoretically complex and methodologically rigorous, it is the first serious study to locate maroon groups in the Chesapeake....
Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These communit...
