Documentary Archaeology in the New World Book

Introduction;

Part I. Archaeology is Not Enough:

1. Legends, houses, families and myths: relationships between material culture and American ideology Anne E. Yentsch;
2. Perceptions of an artifact: Chinese porcelain in colonial Tidewater Virginia Julia B. Curtis;
3. Documentary insights into the archaeology of smuggling Peter R. Schmidt, and Stephen A. Mrozowski;
4. Words for things: linguistic analysis of probate inventories Mary C. Beaudry, Janet Long, henry M. Miller, Fraser D. Neiman, and Garry Wheeler Stone;

Part II. Documents and the Archaeologist: The Data Base:
6. Artifacts are not enough Garry Wheeler stone;
7. The behavioural context of probate inventories: an example from Plymouth colony marley R. Brown III;
8. Occupational differences reflected in material culture Kathleen J. Bragdon;
9. On the use of historical maps Nancy S. Seaholes;
10. Military records and historical archaeology Lawrence E. Babits;
11. The material culture of the Christian Indians of New England, 1650-1775 Kathleen J. Bragdon;
12. Anthropological title searches in Rockbridge County, Virginia H. Langhorne and lawrence E. Babits;

Part III. Ecological Questions In Historical Archaeology:
13. Farming, fishing, whaling, trading: land and sea as resource on eighteenth-century Cape Cod Anne e. yentsch;
14. Seasonality: an agricultural construct Joanne Bowen;

Part IV. Consumerism, Status, Gender, and Ethnicity:
15. Classification and economic scaling of nineteenth-century ceramics george l. miller;
16. For gentlemen of capacity and leisure: the archaeology of colonial newspapers stephen A.mrozowoski;
17. What happened to the silent majority? Research strategies for studying dominant group material culture in late nineteenth-century California Mary Praetzellis, Adrian Praetzellis, and Marley r. brown III.