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Reading List for the 2008 Field School JUNE 3 - JULY 4, 2008 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; History Sections

Heath, Barbara J., 2007. “Jefferson’s Landscape of Retirement,” In Estate Landscapes: Design, Improvement and Power in the Post-Medieval Landscape, ed. Jonathan Finch and Kate Giles, Pp. 129-147.

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

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

Thomas, David Hurst, 1999. Archaeology: Down to Earth. Wadsworth , pp. 43-47.

Select One:
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, pp. 38-54; Notes on Glass; Notes on Metal

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

Deetz, James, 1988. American Historical Archaeology: Methods and Results. Science 239(4838):362-367.

Orser, Chapter 4 and 5

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. Response 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

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

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.

Select One:
Deagan, Kathleen, and Jane Landers, 1999. Fort Mosé : Earliest Free African-American Town in the United States. In I, Too, Am America, Archaeological Studies of African-American Life, edited by T. Singleton, pp. 261-282. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville

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.

Heath, Barbara J. and Lori A. Lee, 2007. The Smallest Things Forgotten: Comparative Analyses of Three Subfloor Pit Assemblages at Poplar Forest. Ms. on file, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Va.

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

Sanford, Douglas W., 1994. The Archaeology of Plantation Slavery in Piedmont Virginia: Context and Process. In Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake, edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little, pp.115-130. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

Week 4: Landscape and Environmental Archaeology

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

Orser, Chapter 10

Sobolik, Kristin D., 2003. Archaeobiology. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA. Pp.75-97.

Select One
Bowen, Joanne, 1999. The Chesapeake Landscape and the Ecology of Animal Husbandry. In Old and New Worlds, Geoff Egan and R. L. Michael, editors, pp. 358-367. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK.

Kelso, Gerald K., 1994. Palynology in Historical Rural-Landscape Studies: Great Meadows, Pennsylvania. American Antiquity 59(2):359-372.

Kvamme, Kenneth L., 2003. Geophysical Surveys as Landscape Archaeology. American Antiquity 68(3):435-457.

Raymer, Leslie and Barbara J. Heath, 2001. African-American Foraging Strategies at a Virginia Plantation. Ms. on file, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, Va.

Sullivan, K. A. and L. Kealhofer. Identifying Activity Areas in Archaeological Soils from a Colonial Virginia House Lot using Phytolith Analysis and Soil Chemistry. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:1659-1673.

Select One:
Adams, William Hampton, 1990. Landscape Archaeology, Landscape History, and the American Farmstead. Historical Archaeology 24:92-101.

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

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, Gainesville.

Select one:
Eichstedt, Jennifer L. and Stephen Small, 2002. Representations of Slavery, Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC., pp. 59-110.

King,Thomas. 1998. Cultural Resources, Laws & Practice, an Introductory Guide. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA, pp. 1-32.

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