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Reading List for the 2007 Field School JUNE 3 - JULY 6, 2007 WEEK ONE | WEEK TWO | WEEK THREE | WEEK FOUR | WEEK FIVE

Week 1: Introduction to Poplar Forest and Historical Archaeology

Required:
Poplar Forest Lab and Field Manual (distributed on the first day of class)
Introduction, Field Procedures and History sections

Heath, Barbara J., 2002. “Old man, young gardener,” The Archaeology of Thomas Jefferson’s Retirement.” Ms. on file, TJPF.

McDonald, Travis C., Jr., 2002. “Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Privacy Restored.” Virginia Cavalcade, p. 26-35.

Orser, Charles E., 2004. Historical Archaeology. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Chapters 1, 6 and 8

Ryden, Kent C., 1993. Mapping the Invisible Landscape, Folklore, Writing and the Sense of Place. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.

Chapter 1, Of Maps and Minds, the Invisible Landscape, p. 19-36.

Select One:
Dunnell, Robert and Jan Simek, 1995. Artifact Size and Plowzone Processes. Journal of Field Archaeology 22(3):305-319.

LeeDecker, Charles, 1994. Discard Behavior on Domestic Historic Sites: Evaluation of Contexts for the Interpretation of Household Consumption Patterns. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 1(4):345-371.

Vogel, Gregory, 2002.A Handbook of Soil Description for Archeologists. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Technical Paper 11.

Week 2: Material culture

Required:
Poplar Forest Lab and Field and Manual
Lab Procedures, Ceramics p. 38-54

Banning, E.B., 2000.The Archaeologist’s Laboratory: The Analysis of Archaeological Data. Kluwer Academic, New York. Chapter 7

Orser, Chapter 4 and 5

Prown, Jules D. Material/Culture: Can the Farmer and the Cowman Still Be Friends? In Learning from Things, Method and Theory of Material Culture Studies, ed. W. David Kingery, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington , D.C.

Select One:
Bradley,Charles S. 2000. Smoking Pipes for the Archaeologist. In Studies in Material Culture Research, ed. Karlis Karklins, pp. 104-133.

Jones, Olive 1991. Glass Bottle Push-Ups and Pontil Marks. In Approaches to material Culture Research for Historical Archaeologists, ed. George L. Miller, Olive R. Jones, Lester A. Ross and Teresita Majewski, pp. 87-98.

Samford, Patricia M., 1997.  Reponse to a Market : Dating English Underglaze Transfer-Printed Wares. Historical Archaeology 31(2):1-30.

Week 3: Africans and African-American archaeology

Required: 
Poplar Forest Lab and Field Manual
Notes on Glass, Notes on Metal

Banning, Chapter 11.

*Heath, Barbara J., 1999.  Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Select One:
DeCorse, Christopher R.,1999.Oceans Apart: Africanist Perspectives of Diaspora Archaeology.  In I, Too, Am America, Archaeological Studies of African-American Life, edited by T. Singleton, pp. 132-158. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Edwards-Ingram, Ywone D., 2001.African American Medicine and the Social Relations of Slavery. In Race and the Archaeology of Identity, edited by Charles E. Orser, pp. 34-53. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Neiman, Fraser D., 1997. Sub-floor pits and slavery in 18^th and early 19^th century Virginia. Paper presented at the Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Samford, Patricia, 1996.The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture. The William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Vol. LIII:87-114.

Thomas, Brian W. and Larissa Thomas, 2004. Gender and the Presentation of Self: An Examination from the Hermitage. In Engendering African American Archaeology, A Southern Perspective, edited by Jillian Galle and Amy Young, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, pp. 101-132.

Week 4: Theory in Historical Archaeology

Required:
Poplar Forest Lab and Field Manual
A Brief Introduction to Faunal Analysis

Orser, Chapter 10

Ryden, Kent C., 1993. Mapping the Invisible Landscape, Folklore, Writing and the Sense of Place. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.  
Chapter 1, Of Maps and Minds, the Invisible Landscape, p. 36-52.

Select One:
Adams, Keith W., 2005. Paths and Roads: Knitting Together an Evolving Landscape. Ms. on file, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, Va.

Heath, Barbara J., 2005. Thomas Jefferson’s Landscape of Retirement. Ms. on file, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, Va.

Lee, Lori A. and Barbara J. Heath, 2005. Memory, Race, and Place: African American Landscapes at Poplar Forest. Ms. on file, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, Va.

Lichtenberger, Randy, 2005.  Everyday Living in Jefferson’s Shadow. Ms. on file, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, Va.

Select One:
Groover, Mark D., 2004. Household Succession as a Catalyst of Landscape Change. Historical Archaeology 38(4):25-43.

King, Julia A., 2001-2002.  How the Past Becomes a Place: An Example from 19^th-century Maryland. Northeast Historical Archaeology 30-31:113-128.

McKee, Larry,1996. The Archaeology of Rachel’s Garden. In Landscape Archaeology, Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape, edited by Rebecca Yamin and Karen Bescherer Metheny, pp. 70-90, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Shackel, Paul A., 2003. Archaeology, Memory and Landscapes of Conflict. Historical Archaeology 37(3):3-13.

Week 5: Public Archaeology

Required:
Orser, Chapter 12 and 13  

Horning, Audrey, 2005.  Does Historical Archaeology Really Matter in Today’s World? In Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America, edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson Jr., pp.200-204, University Press of Florida. 

King,Thomas. 1998. Cultural Resources, Laws & Practice, an Introductory Guide, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, 1998. Pages 1-32.

Select one:
Eichstedt, Jennifer L. and Stephen Small, 2002.   Representations of Slavery, Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Chapters 1 and 3.

Smardz, Karolyn and Shelley J. Smith, 2000. The Archaeology Education Handbook, Sharing the Past with Kids. Altamira Press, New York. Pp. 17-34; Chapters 14, 17, 25