This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe.
Authored by 19 experts in the field.
Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work, piecing together information from both material culture and documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and societies they study.
Engages with current theory in an accessible manner.
Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local experiences of...
This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin Am...
This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe.
Authored by 19 experts in the field.
Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work, piecing together information from both material culture and documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and societies they study.
Engages with current theory in an accessible manner.
Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local experiences of...
This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin Am...
A fundamental issue for twenty-first century archaeologists is the need to better direct their efforts toward supporting rather than harming indigenous peoples. Collaborative indigenous archaeology has already begun to stress the importance of cooperative, community-based research; this book now offers an up-to-date assessment of how Native American and non-native archaeologists have jointly undertaken research that is not only politically aware and historically minded but fundamentally better as well. Eighteen contributors many with tribal ties cover the current state of collaborative...
A fundamental issue for twenty-first century archaeologists is the need to better direct their efforts toward supporting rather than harming indigenou...
Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a critical time for California Indians, as many were drawn into labor pools for the flourishing ranchos following the 1834 dismantlement of the mission system, but they are practically absent from the documentary record and from popular histories. This study focuses on Rancho Petaluma north of San Francisco Bay, a large livestock, agricultural, and manufacturing operation on which several hundred--perhaps as many as two thousand--Native Americans...
Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a ...
