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  • Patterns and Analysis

    Edited by John M. Chenoweth ...
    The first part of Volume I includes a guide to further research, a new Primer on Historic Ceramics, discussions of the lifecourse of objects as they are used and reused, fragmentation and "missing" artifacts, and central information on dating. Part two presents methods of analysis unique to historical archaeology, such as Binford's Pipe Stem Dating or South's Mean Ceramic Dating formulas in their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Materials

    The Historical Archaeology Laboratory Handbook Volume 3

    Edited by John M. Chenoweth ...
    Volumes II and III focus on the identification of different kinds of materials and are divided chronologically. Volume III focuses on materials produced and used mainly during the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to the materials considered in Volume II, works here outline metal cans, gun cartridges, and even electrical artifacts. ... Read more

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  • Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean

    Exploring the Spaces in Between

    Series series Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
    Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates. Employing innovative research tools and integrating data from Dominica, St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Nevis, ... Read more

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  • Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Materials

    The Historical Archaeology Laboratory Handbook Volume 2

    Edited by John M. Chenoweth ...
    Volumes II and III focus on the identification of different kinds of materials and are divided chronologically. Volume II focuses on earlier materials, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, but also extending into the early decades of the 19th century. Ceramic materials, including smoking pipes, and glass (both window and vessel) are considered in the first part and "small finds" such as ... Read more

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  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

    The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. ... Read more

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  • Global Culture, Island Identity

    Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a ... Read more

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  • Troubling Freedom

    Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

    In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the ... Read more

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  • Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

    Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

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    An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast.One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so ... Read more

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  • The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

    From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent's mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially ... Read more

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    The Foundations of Colonial South Africa

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  • Black Rice

    The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

    Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the eighteenth century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the black slaves ... Read more

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