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360 Pages·2005·3.52 MB·English

by  Martin Hall

BLACKWELL STUDIES IN GLOBAL ARCHAEOLOGY
historical
archaeology
Edited by
Martin Hall and
Stephen W. Silliman
Historical Archaeology
BlAckwell StudieS in GloBAl ArcHAeoloGy
Series Editors: Lynn Meskell and Rosemary A. Joyce
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Historical Archaeology
Edited by
Martin Hall and
Stephen W. Silliman
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Historical archaeology / edited by Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman.
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contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1 introduction: Archaeology of the Modern world 1
Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman
Part I: Dimensions of Practice
2 environments of History: Biological dimensions of Historical
Archaeology 23
Stephen A. Mrozowski
3 Material culture and text: exploring the Spaces within and
Between 42
Patricia Galloway
4 the Place of Space: Architecture, landscape, and Social life 65
Elizabeth P. Pauls
5 critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present 84
Matthew M. Palus, Mark P. Leone, and Matthew D. Cochran
Part II: Themes in Interpretation
6 engendered Archaeology: Men, women, and others 107
Barbara L. Voss
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7 ideology and the Material culture of life and death 128
Heather Burke
8 Struggling with labor, working with identities 147
Stephen W. Silliman
9 exploring the institution: reform, confinement, Social
change 167
Lu Ann De Cunzo
10 A class All its own: explorations of class Formation and
conflict 190
LouAnn Wurst
Part III: World Systems and Local Living
11 conquistadors, Plantations, and Quilombo: latin America
in Historical Archaeological context 209
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
12 Gold, Black ivory, and Houses of Stone: Historical Archaeology
in Africa 230
Innocent Pikirayi
13 Becoming American: Small things remembered 251
Diana DiPaolo Loren and Mary C. Beaudry
14 Mission, Gold, Furs, and Manifest destiny: rethinking an
Archaeology of colonialism for western north America 272
Kent G. Lightfoot
15 Pacific encounters, or Beyond the islands of History 293
Jane Lydon
16 the tide reversed: Prospects and Potentials for a Postcolonial
Archaeology of europe 313
Matthew Johnson
Index 332
Figures
1.1 The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein, 1533 3
1.2 Tupiweib, Albert Eckhout, 1641 15
3.1 Skeletal actor network for historical archaeology 45
3.2 Actor network of object-centered archivization 46
3.3 Actor network of document-centered archivization 50
3.4 General actor network of objects and documents in historical
archaeology 53
3.5 Actor network for Charles Thomas’ Pictish symbol
interpretation 61
4.1 Exterior of reconstructed earthlodge at Knife River Indian
Villages National Historic Site, Stanton, North Dakota 77
5.1 University of Maryland field school students discuss ongoing
excavation in Eastport with Annapolis Planning and Zoning staff 98
5.2 Maisha Washington leads students through an excavation exercise
themed around African-American heritage in Annapolis 99
5.3 Two students in Maisha Washington’s program 100
6.1 Awl handle from Little Rapids 110
6.2 The Narkomfin Communal House 118
7.1 The development of different analytical approaches to studying
ideology in archaeology 131
7.2 William Paca’s Garden, Annapolis, Maryland 135
8.1 Cellar under tent burned by the Colorado National Guard, killing
women and children, Ludlow Colony, 1914 151
8.2 Petaluma Adobe quadrangle, Rancho Petaluma, northern
California 155
9.1 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Providence, Rhode Island,
showing the spatial layout of the “Old State Prison” (1838–77) 171
9.2 Rhode Island State Prison (1838–77) exposed during excavations
in 1997 172
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9.3 A portion of the solitary cells constructed in 1851 at the Ross
Female Factory (1847–55), Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)
Australia 175
9.4 First floor plan of the Magdalen Society Asylum, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania (1846–1915) 177
9.5 Fragment of blue transfer printed ceramic plate with natural,
rural, floral imagery symbolic of female purity 179
11.1 Map of Latin America with sites referred to in this chapter and
elsewhere in the volume 210
11.2 Only known contemporary rendering of Palmares in northeastern
Brazil 222
11.3 Pottery from Palmares 225
12.1 Map of Africa with sites, regions, and features referred to in this
chapter 231
12.2 Fort Sao Jorge da Mina (Elmina), the first Portuguese fort along
the Gold Coast, now Ghana, built in 1482 236
12.3 Site of Khami, western Zimbabwe, 1450–1650 243
13.1 Map of eastern North America with sites, regions, and features
referred to in this chapter and elsewhere in the volume 252
13.2 Patuxent Point shroud pin. 262
13.3 Artifacts from Presidio Los Adaes. 266
14.1 Map of western North America with sites, regions, and features
referred to in this chapter and elsewhere in the volume 274
14.2 Russian stockade at Colony (Fort) Ross, Sonoma County coast,
California 276
14.3 Neophyte quarters at La Purisíma Mission, Lompoc, California 278
14.4 View of blockhouse, Fort Vancouver, Oregon coast 281
15.1 Map of the Pacific with sites, regions, and features referred to
in this chapter and elsewhere in the volume 295
16.1 Christopher Saxton’s colored printed map of England and Wales,
published in 1579 as part of Lord Burghley’s Atlas 323
16.2 John Rutter’s rendition (1823) of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire,
England, built by William Beckford from 1796 onward 325
notes on contributors
Mary C. Beaudry is Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at Boston Uni-
versity, where she supervises graduate and undergraduate work in historical archae-
ology. Her chief areas of expertise are historical and industrial archaeology of the
Americas and British Isles. She is a member of the steering committee for the
Contemporary Historical Archaeology & Theory Group, on the editorial board of
Post-Medieval Archaeology, and is author of Findings: The Material Culture of Needle-
work and Sewing (forthcoming).
Heather Burke lectures in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University,
Adelaide, South Australia, specializing in historical archaeology, theory and method,
and the representation of the past. Her current research interests are focused on
the archaeology of contact and the colonial process, and her most recent publication
is The Archaeologist’s Field Handbook (2004).
Matthew D. Cochran is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology,
University College London. His research is centered broadly within material culture
studies, and more narrowly within issues of the experience of space and place. His
thesis project is a comparative ethnographic study of the construction of senses of
place at two contemporary thematic sites – the Annapolis Historic District and the
Arundel Mills Mall, near Annapolis, Maryland.
Lu Ann De Cunzo is Professor of Anthropology, Early American Culture and
Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Reform,
Respite, Ritual (1995) on the archaeology of institutions and A Historical Archaeology
of Delaware (2004). Her current work in Delaware focuses on the colonial capital,
New Castle, in the Atlantic world, and capitalism and the cultures of Piedmont
agriculture.
Pedro Paulo A. Funari is Professor of Historical Archaeology, Campinas State
University in Brazil, and a research associate at Illinois State University in the USA
and at Barcelona University in Spain. He is co-editor of Historical Archaeology: Back