Final Exam (Test 4) Review
Historical Archaeology
Spring 2009
Exam is scheduled for April 28, 2009 (12:30pm -2:30 pm)
To be prepared for this exam, you will need to have read all of the following:
Young, Amy 1996 Archaeological Evidence of African-Style Ritual and Healing
Practices in the Upland South. Tennessee Anthropologist, 21(2):139-155.
Fennell, Christopher C. 2003 Group Identity, Individual Creativity, and Symbolic
Generation in a BaKongo Diaspora. International Journal of Historical Archaeology
7(1):1-31.
Davidson, James M. 2004 Rituals Captured in Context and Time: Charm Use in North
Dallas Freedman’s Town (1869-1907), Dallas, Texas. Historical Archaeology 38(2):2254.
Little, Barbara J., Kim M. Lamphear, and Douglas W. Owsley 1992 Mortuary display
and status in a nineteenth-century Anglo-American cemetery in Manassas, Virginia.
American Antiquity 57(3):397-418.
Jamieson, Ross W. 1995 Material culture and social death: African-American burial
practices. Historical Archaeology 29(4):39-58.
Davidson, James M. and Edward Tennant 2008 A Potential Archaeology of Rosewood,
Florida: The Process of Remembering a Community and a Tragedy. The SAA
Archaeological Record, the Magazine of the Society for American Archaeology (January)
8(1):13-16.
Franklin, Maria 1997 “Power to the People”: Sociopolitics and the Archaeology of Black
Americans. Historical Archaeology 31(3):36-50.
McDavid, Carol 1997 Descendants, Decisions, and Power: The Public Interpretation of
the Archaeology of the Levi Jordan Plantation. Historical Archaeology 31(3):114-131.
Patten, M. Drake 1997 Cheers of Protest? The Public, the Post, and the Parable of
Learning. Historical Archaeology 31(3):131-139.
Epperson, Terrence W. 2004 Critical Race Theory and the Archaeology of the African
Diaspora. Historical Archaeology 38(1):101-108.
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Terms, Sites, Concepts, and People Covered on the Exam:
Charles Fairbanks
Bakongo Diaspora
James Deetz
Amy Young
Critical Race Theory
Paul Mullins
Minkisi
Freedman’s Cemetery
Chris Fennell
Kingsley Plantation
Emblematic and instrumental symbol expressions
Maria Franklin
Partings Ways
James Davidson
Levi Jordan Plantation
Concept of the “Social Persona”
Carol McDavid
Bric-a-Brac
Terrence Epperson
Locust Grove Plantation
Origins of Historical Mortuary Archaeology
Southern Black Grave markings
Rosewood, Florida
The Oakland Cemetery
Self Reflexivity
Ethnographic analogy
First African Baptist Church Cemetery
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Catherine Foster
Venable Lane Cemetery
M. Drake Patten
Catoctin Furnace Cemetery
Weir Family Cemetery
Art Saxe and Lewis Binford
Aubrey Cannon
Know the main points of Jameson’s study of Black burial practices.
Know in detail the examples Maria Franklin used in her discussion of politics and
African American archaeology.
Know basic facts surrounding the Rosewood Massacre (Who, what, when, where, why)
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From Davidson’s coin charm study, know the basic demographic and temporal
parameters of coin charm usage, the types of coins typically used, and the differences
between the archival and archaeological examples.
Be able to identify and discuss the various “Publics” that Carol McDavid identified in her
Levi Jordan Plantation study.
Know the possible charm types from Locust Grove Plantation, and their basic
interpretations.
Know all of the basic information on the Venable Lane Cemetery Controversy.
Know the details and underlying theory of the Weir Family Cemetery study.
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