Neiman Syllabus Atlantic History Seminar

Methods in Historical Archaeology
ARH 515
Fraser D. Neiman
University of Virginia

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1. Introduction: Intellectual traditions in Americanist archaeology in historical perspective.

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PART 1: Theoretical approaches
2. The legacy of Americanist "culture history": chronological inference.

Dunnell, R.C.
1970 Seriation method and its evaluation. American Antiquity 35(3):305-319.

Dethlefsen, E. and J. Deetz
1966 Death's heads, cherubs, and willow tress: experimental archaeology in colonial cemeteries. American Antiquity 31(4): 502-510.

South, S.
1972 Evolution and horizon as revealed in ceramic analysis in historical archaeology. The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 6:71-116.

Harrington, J .C.
1954 Dating stem fragments of 17th and 18th century tobacco pipes. QuarterlyBulletin of the A rchaeological Society of Virginia 9(1):6-8.

Binford, L.R.
1962 A new method of calculating dates from kaolin pipestem samples. Southeastern Archaeological Newsletter 9(2):19-21.

Deetz, J.
1987 Harrington Histograms versus Binford mean dates as a technique for establishing the occupational sequence of sites at Flowerdew Hundred Virginia. American Archaeology 6(1):62-67.

Gonick, L. and W. Smith
1993 The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. Harper Perennial, New York. Pp.1-26.

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3. Beyond chronology: processualism, structuralism, in historical archaeology, and a non-Americanist alternative.

Binford, L.R.
1962 Archaeology as Anthropology. American Antiquity 28:217-225.

South, S.
1977 Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology. Academic Press, New York. Chapter 4: The Carolina Artifact Pattern; Chapter 5: The Frontier Artifact Pattern, pp. 83-164.

Noel Hume, I.
1991 Chapters 3-5, pp.34-110. Martin's Hundred. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

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4. Anti- and - post-processual archaeologies: structural, critical, and post-modem

Deetz, ] .
1988 Material Culture and World View in Colonial Anglo-America. In The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States, edited by M.P. Leone and P .B. Potter pp. 219-235. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Leone, M.
1988 The Georgian order as the order of merchant capitalism in Annapolis, Maryland. In The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States, edited by M.P. Leone ana P .B. Potter pp. 235-261. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Beaudry, M.C., L.]. Cook and S.A. Mrozowski
1991 Artifacts ,as active voices: material culture as social discourse. In The Archaeology of Inequality, edited by R.H. McGuire and R. Paynter, pp. 150-191. Blackwell, Oxford.

Mrozowski, Stephen A.
1996 Nature, society, and culture: theoretical considerations in historical archaeology. In Historical Archaeology and the study of American Culture, edited by LuAnn De Cunzo and Bernard L; Herman, pp. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.447 -473.

Note: Project 1 (Seriation) due 9/29.

5. Converging perspectives on design from social history and archaeology.

Carson, C.
1978 Doing history with material culture. In Material Culture and the Study of American Life, edited by I. Quimby, pp. 41-64. Norton, New York.

O'Brien, M.J., T.D. Holland, R.J. Hoard, G.L. Fox
1994 Evolutionary implications of design and performance characteristics of prehistoric pottery. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 1(3):259-304.

Dennett, D.C.
1995 Chapter 6, The Threads of Actuality in Design Space, pp.124-145. Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Simon and Schuster, New York.

PART 2: Aspects of the Archaeological History of the Colonial and ante-bellum Chesapeake

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6. The "Consumer Revolution"
Boone, James L
1998 The evolution of magnanimity: When is it better to give than to receive?
Human Nature 9(1):1-22.

Carson, C.
1994 The consumer revolution in Colonial British America: A Why demand @? In Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the 18th century, edited by C. Carson, R. Hoffman, and P.J. Albert, pp.483-700. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

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7. Impermanent architecture in the 17th-Century Chesapeake

Carson, C., et al.
1981 Impermanent architecture in the southern American colonies. Winterthur Portfolio 17 (2-3): 135-196.

Morrison, A.
1985 A new way of looking at old holes: methods for excavating and interpreting timber structures. In Structure and process in southeastern archaeology, edited by Roy S. Dickens, Jr. and H. Trawick Ward, pp. 119-134. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Note: Project 2 (Gravestone Morphology) Due 10/20

8. Chesapeake plantation house-plan variation: social dynamics.

Ridley, M.
1996 The Origins of Virtue: Human instincts and the evolution of cooperation. Viking, New York. Chapter 3: The prisoner's dilemma, pp. 51-66.

Upton, D.
1982 Origins of Chesapeake architecture. In Three Centuries of Maryland Architecture, pp.44-57. Maryland Historic Trust, Annapolis.

Neiman, F.D.
1993 Temporal patterning in house plans from the 17th-century Chesapeake. In The Archaeology of the 17th Century Chesapeake, edited by T.R. Reinhart and D.J. Pogue, pp. 251-283. Special Publication no. 30, Archaeological Society of Virginia.

Bentley Systems
1995 Chapter 1: Your First MicroStation Session, Chapter 2 MicroStation Fundamentals, Chapter 3. AccuDraw and other Drafting Aids. MicroStation Academic Suite Tutorial Workbook.

Note: Guest lecture: Introduction to 2-D archaeological CAD by Dr. Sara Bon-Harper. 10/27

9. Faunal assemblages

Miller, H.
1988 An archaeological perspective on the evolution of diet in the 17th-century Chesapeake: 1620-1745. In The Colonial Chesapeake, edited by L.G. Carr and J. Russo, pp.176-199. University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill.

Bowen, J.
1996 Foodways in the 18th-century Chesapeake. In The Archaeology of 18th-century Virginia, edited by T.R. Reinhart, pp.87-130. Special Publication no. 35, Archaeological Society of Virginia, Richmond.

Crader, D. .
1984 The Zooarchaeology of the Storehouse and Dry Well at Monticello. American Antiquity 44(3):542-558.

Note: CAD Workshop with Dr. Sara Bon-Harper.

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10. Locally-made Chesapeake pipes.

Henry, S.
1979 Terra-cotta pipes in 17th-century Maryland and Virginia: a preliminary study. Historical Archaeology 13:14-37.

Emerson, M.C.
1994 Decorated clay tobacco pipes from the Chesapeake: an African connection. In HistoricalArchaeology of the Chesapeake, edited by ,P .A. Shackle and B.J. Little, pp. 35-50. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Mouer, D., etal.
1999 Colono pottery, Chesapeake pipes, and uncritical assumptions. In I, Too, am America, A rchaeological Studies oj African American Life, edited by Theresa Singleton, pp.83-115. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

ESRI 1997 Chapters 7-10. In Getting to know Arc View GIS

Note: Project 3 (CAD) due.

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11. Colono pottery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina.

Deetz, J.
1988 American historical archaeology: methods and results. Science 239:362-367.

Heath, B.L.
1996 Temper, temper: Recent scholarship on Colonoware in 18 th -century Virginia. In The Archaeology of 18 th -Century Virginia, edited by T .R.. Reinhart, pr. 149-175. Special Publication No. 35 of the Archaeological Society of Virginia, Richmond.

Steen, Carl
1999. Stirring the ethnic stew in the South Carolina back country: John de la Howe and the Lethe Farm. In Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology, edited by Maria Franklin and Garrett Fesler, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Research Publications, Williamsburg.

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12. Understanding architectural variation on Virginia slave quarter sites.

Ridley, M.
1996 The Origins of Virtue: Human instincts and the evolution of cooperation.Viking, New York. Chapter 7: Theories of moral sentiment, pp.125-148.

Samford, P.
1999. A Strong is the bond of kinship @: West African ancestor shrines and sub-floor pits on African-American quarters. In Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology, edited by Maria Franklin and Garrett Fesler, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Research Publications, Williamsburg.

Kelso, W.M.
1984 Kingsmill Plantations, 1619-1800: The archaeology of Country Life in Colonial Virginia. Academic Press, Orlando. Quarters, pp.l02-128.

McKee, L.
1992. The ideals and realities behind the design and use of 19th-century Virginia slave cabins. In The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology, Essays in Honor of James Deetz, edited by A.E. Yentcn and M.C. Beaudry, pp.195-213. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Note: Project 4 (Intrasite Spatial Distribution of Chesapeake Pipes) due.

11/20

Field Trip to Monticello: Patterns of change in slave architecture and settlement.

Note: Meet at Monticello at 9:00 a.m.

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Thanksgiving Recess 12/1

13. Kingsmill project workshop

Kullikoff, A.
1986 Part III: Black Society, pp. 317-435. Tobacco an.d Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake: 1680-1800. University of North Carolina Press, Chapell Hill.

Walsh, Lorena
1993 Slave life, slave society and tobacco production in the Tidewater Chesapeake, 1620-1820. Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas, edited by Iro Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, pp.170-202 University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

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14. Presentation and discussion of results

Note: Project 5 (Kingsmill Sub-Floor Pits) due.

15. Finale

12/16 2:00p.m. Final Examination.