Between Dirt and Discussion: Methods, Methodology and Interpretation in Historical Archaeology Book

Introduction: Considering Methods and Methodology in Historical Archaeology.- Pipemakers and Their Workshops: The Use of Geochemical Analysis in the Study of the Clay Tobacco Pipe Industry.- The Integration of Historical Cartographic Data Within the GIS Environment.- Saloons in the Wild West and Taverns in Mesopotamia: Explorations along the Timeline of Public Drinking.- The Life and Death of a Home: House History in a Subsurface Feature.- Alternatives to Traditional Models for the Classification and Analysis of Pipes of the Early Colonial Chesapeake.- Archaeology and the Ethics of Scientific Destruction.- Finding Common Ground in Common Places: Interdisciplinary Methods for Analyzing Historic Architecture on Archaeological Sites.- Re-excavation, Reflexivity and Responsibility at Colonial Williamsburg: The Archaeology of Archaeology and the Reifnement of Site Interpretation.- Excavating Sites Unseen: The Example of Earthfast Buildings in the Colonial Chesapeake.- "Ponying up to Billy Hurst's Saloon": The Testing and Evaluation of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Deposits Through Less Invasive Techniques in Yosemite National Park.- Methodology, Materiality and the Endless Sea of Archaeology.-