HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR (ANG 5175)
SYLLABUS FALL 2005
Dr. Judy Bense
SEMINARS
Seminars will be critical review and discussion sessions of assigned readings on specific
concepts and information. Readings are assigned for each week and a student discussion
leader will conduct the discussions and review of the readings. Each student must lead at least
one seminar. Student discussion leaders will be graded on a 20 point scale based on preparation,
organization, leadership, and knowledge. The use of handouts, chalk board, overheads, projected
images, and bringing additional outside information to the seminar is encouraged. The grade for
the discussion leadership makes up 10% of the grade for this course. Students who lead more
than one seminar will have their points averaged for this portion of their grade. General
participation in the discussions of readings is also important to this seminar. Ten percent of your
grade will be determined by your level of participation as a discussant in the seminars.
PREPARATION/ANNOTATIONS
Every student must be prepared every class period to discuss the assigned readings. This means
annotating every reading and bringing them to class. Because volunteerism has not worked I will
require you to email me (jbense@uwf.edu) your annotations (ca 100-300 words) of each
assigned reading by 5:00 PM on Sundays preceding class on Tuesdays. This will give you
Monday and Tuesday to review your notes and give me time to review your annotations. Your
synopses account for 15% of your grade. I will scan all your annotations and read two in detail
and provide feedback each week. If you do not submit annotations I will deduct 1% of your point
total for the course each time.
Include in the annotations:
 What is the author’s main point(s)?
 What are the key concepts? How are key words defined?
 What are the author’s assumptions, both explicit and implicit?
 How does this author criticize (or less often, praise) other authors’ works?
 How does this author propose to overcome perceived shortcomings?
 With what other readings/authors would you align this work?
 To what other readings/authors does this author seem to be opposed?
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
An annotated bibliography on a specific pre-approved topic is due on the last day of this course.
It is a good idea to select a topic related to your thesis research or main interest. The annotated
bibliography includes
 A five page double spaced summary or overview of the references and it should include
how and what the sources contribute to the research topic and a critique of the sources
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20 annotated primary sources (original research usually found in journals, monographs,
original historical documents, or research books); each annotation should be 200-300
words in length summarizing the source as it relates to the research question
10 annotated secondary sources (summaries, and overviews based on primary
documents); each annotation should be 400-500 words in length summarizing pertinent
information as it relates to the research question and a critique of the usefulness of the
source.
FINAL EXAM: A comprehensive final essay exam will be required in this course and it will
make up 35% of the grade
GRADE DETERMINATION:
10%
15%
15%
25%
35%
Discussion leadership
Annotations
Participation
Annotated Bibliography
Final Exam
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR (ANG 5175)
SYLLABUS FALL 2005
Revised 9/13/05
Discussion Leader
Snacks
8/23
ORIENTATION AND OVERVIEW
9/6
THEORY
Jim C.
Shane
9/13
METHODS
Nickie
Dean
(9/20 ETHNOHISTORY
Krista
Chris
9/27
CONTACT ARCHAEOLOGY
Julie
Kendra
10/4
MISSIONS
Anna?
Jim G
Jim G
Jim C
10/11 COLONIAL SETTLEMENTS (9AM)
10/18 PLANTATIONS
Nick
TOPIC APPROVAL DEADLINE FOR ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Siska
10/21 SHIPWRECKS (Friday 1 PM)
Shane
Chris
10/25 FARMSTEADS
Kendra
Nick
10/28 POST-COLONIAL TOWNS AND CITIES (Friday 9 AM) Siska
Anna
11/15 ETHNICITY
Chris
Krista
11/22 GENDER
Anna
Julie
11/29 INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES DUE
Dean
Nickie
12/5
FINAL EXAM
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
Week 2:
THEORY
Little 1994
People With History: An Update on Historical Archaeology in the United
States. In Images of the Recent Past, by Orser 1996, Altamira Press (42-78).
Deagan 1982 Avenues of Inquiry in Historical Archaeology. In Orser 1996, Images of the
Recent Past, Altamira Press (6-41)
1991 Historical Archaeology’s Contribution to Our Understanding of Early
America. In Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective. Edited by Lisa Faulk.
Marquardt 1992: Dialectical Archaeology. In Archaeological Method and Theory Volume 4,
Edited by Michael Schiffer.
Pogue 2000
Transformation of America: Georgian Sensibility, Capitalist Conspiracy or
Consumer Revolution, Historical Archaeology 35(2)
Bedell 2001
Delaware and the Revolutionary 18th Century. Historical Archaeology 35(4)
Week 3:
METHODS
South 1977 Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology. Academic Press. (Whole book)
Deetz 1996
Remember Me as You Pass By. In Small Things Forgotten. By James Deetz,
Anchor Press.
Miller 1991
A Revised Set of CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of
English Ceramics from 1787 to 1880. Historical Archaeology 25:(1 )1-26.
Brenner and Monks 2002
Detecting Economic Variability in the Red River Settlement.
Historical Archaeology 36(2)
Purses1992
Oral History and Historical Archaeology. In Text-Aided Archaeology, CRC
Press. Edited by Barbara Little.
Week 4:
ETHNOHISTORY
Galloway 1991
The Archaeology of Ethnohistorical Narrative. In Columbian
Consequences. Vol 3 ed. Thomas
Lightfoot 1995
Culture Contact Studies: Redefining the Relationship between
Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology. American Antiquity 60(2): 199217.
Deagan 1990 Accommodation and Resistance: The Process and Impact of Spanish
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Colonization in the Southeast. In Columbian Consequences. Vol 2 ed. Thomas
Wood 1990
Ethnohistory and Historical Method, In Archaeological Method and Theory,
Vol 2, ed by Schiffer.
Johnson 2000 Politics of Poverty. In Interpretations of Native North American Life, Edited by
Nassaney and Johnson.
Price and Price 1981 Investigation of Settlement and Subsistence Systems in the Ozark
Border Region of Southeast Missouri During the First Half of the 19th
Century: Widow Harris Cabin Project. Ethnohistory 28(3)237-258
Lightfoot, K. G., 1995 Culture Contact Studies: Redefining the Relationship Between
Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology. American Antiquity 60:119217.
Week 5: CONTACT ARCHAEOLOGY
Smith and Hally 1992 Chiefly Behavior: Evidence from 16th Century Spanish Accounts. In
Lords of the Southeast: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of
Southeastern North America. Archaeological Papers of the AAA No. 3
Scarry 1992 Political Offices and political Structure: Ethnohistoric and Archaeological
Perspectives on the Native Lords of Apalachee. In Lords of the Southeast: Social
Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America. Archaeological
Papers of the AAA No. 3
Deagan 1990 16th Century Spanish-American Colonization in the Southeastern U.S. and
Caribbean In Columbian Consequences. Vol 2 ed. D. H Thomas.
Larsen et.al. 1992
Population Decline and Extinction in La Florida. In Disease and
Demography in the Americas ed by Verano and Ubelaker. Smithsonian
Press
Reff 1992
Contact Shock in Northwestern New Spain. In Disease and Demography in the
Americas ed by Verano and Ubelaker. Smithsonian Press
Smith 1989
Aboriginal Population Movements in the Early Historic Period in the
Interior Southeast. In Powhatan's Mantle ed by Waselkov and Hatley
Week 6: MISSIONS
Thomas 1990 The Spanish Missions of La Florida: An Overview. In Columbian
Consequences Volume 2 ed by Thomas (357-397)
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Bushnell 1990 The Sacramental Imperative: Catholic Ritual and Indian Sedentism in the
Provinces of Florida. In Columbian Consequences Volume 2 ed by Thomas
(475-490)
Marrinan 1991 “Archaeological Investigations at Mission Patale, 1984-1991.” Florida
Anthropologist 44(2-4)228-254
McEwan 199 “Hispanic life on the 17th Century Florida Frontier” Florida Anthropologist
44(2-4)255-267.
Bushell 1994 Situado and Sabana, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural
History, Number 74.
Jones and Pendergast 1991
The Native Context of Colonialism in Southern Mesoamerica
and Central Americs: An Overview. In Columbian
Consequences Volume 3 ed by Thomas (161-185)
Weeks and Black 1991
Mercedarian Missionaries and the Transformation of Lenca
Indian Society in Western Hondouras 1550-1700. In Columbian
Consequences Volume 3 ed by Thomas (245-261).
Week 7:
COLONIAL SETTLEMENTS
South 1988:
Santa Elena: Threshold of Conquest In The Recovery of Meaning by Leone
and Potter
Deagan 1995 After Columbus: the 16th Century Spanish-Caribbean Frontier. In Puerto
Real: The Archaeology of a 16th Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola. Deagan,
editor (420-456).
Williams 2003 The Evolution of the Presidio in Northern New Spain. Manuscript for
Historical Archaeology
Bense 2003
Presidio Santa Maria de Galve in Spanish West Florida. Manuscript for
Historical Archaeology
Deagan 1983 The Archaeological Manifestations of Spanish St. Augustine. In Spanish St.
Augustine by Deagan (231-271).
Brown and Samford 1994
Waselkov 2002
Current Archaeological Perspectives on the Growth and
Development of Williamsburg . In Historical Archaeology of the
Chesapeake (231-246).
French Colonial Archaeology at Old Mobile: Introduction. Historical
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Archaeology 36(1)
Week 8:
SHIPWRECKS
Muckelroy 1978
Introducing Maritime Archaeology and Archaeology of Shipwrecks
Chapters 3 and 25 in Maritime Archaeology Ed by Babits and Van Tilburg
1998
Lenihan and Murphy 1981 Considerations for Research Design in shipwreck Archaeology
Chapter 21 in Maritime Archaeology Ed by Babits and Van Tilburg 1998.
Bass 1988 Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas ed
 Ch 3 Shipwrecks of the Explorers Kieth
 Ch 5 Treasure Ships of the Spanish Main: Iberian-American Empires Smith
 Ch 11 Civil War at Sea Watts
Smith et. al 1998 The Emmanuel Point Ship: Archaeological Investigations 1996-1997.
Florida Department of State Division of Historical Resources. Bureau of
Archaeological Research.
Gould 2000 Archaeology and the Social History of Ships.
 Chapter 1 Interpreting the Archaeological Record)
 Chapter 28 Ships and the Great Age of Sail
 Chapter 12 The Future of Underwater Archaeology.
Bruseth 2005 From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck,
La Belle. Texas A & M University Press.
Week 9: PLANTATIONS
Singleton 1991
The Archaeology of Slave Life.
Archaeology (141-165)
Wheaton and Garrow 1985
Armstrong 1985
In Orser Readings in Historical
Acculturation and the Archaeological Record in the Carolina
Lowcountry. In Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life by
Singleton (239-259)
An Afro-American Slave Settlement: Archaeological Investigations at
Drax Hall. In Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life by Singleton
(261-87)
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Joseph 1993
White Columns and Black Hands: Class and Classification in the Plantation
Ideology of the Georgia and South Carolina Low Country. Historical
Archaeology 27(3).
Weisman 2000 The Plantation System of the Florida Seminole Indians and Black
Seminoles During the Colonial Era. In Colonial Plantations and Economy in
Florida. University Presses of Florida.
Miller and Wood 2000 Oakland Plantation: Subsurface Investigation. Southeast
Archaeology Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee.
Week 10:
Stine 1990
FARMSTEADS
Social Inequality and Turn-of-the-Century Farmsteads: Issues of Status,
Ethnicity, and Class. Historical Archaeology 24(4)37-49
Wettstaed 2004 19th Century Frontier Occupations of the Missouri Ozarks. Historical
Archaeology 37 (4).
Friedlander 1991
House and Barn: Wealth of Farmers. Historical Archaeology 25:15-29.
Joseph, Reed, Cantley 1992 We're Just Dirt Farmers. Synthesis of South Carolina
Archaeology
Trinkley 1983 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men--If Only We Can Find Them. Southeastern
Archaeology 2(1)30-36
Orser and Holland 1984
Friedlander 1991:
Price 1985
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Accurately: Towards an
Understanding of Postbellum Southeastern Agricultural
Practices. Southeastern Archaeology 3(2)111-120.
House and Barn: The Wealth of Farmers: 1795-1815. Historical
Archaeology 25(2): 15-29
Patterns of Cultural Behavior and Intrasite Distributions of Faunal Remains
at the Widow Harris Site. Historical Archaeology 19(2)40-56
Week 11: POST-COLONIAL TOWNS AND CITIES
Cressey, et. al 1982
The Core-Periphery Relationship and the Archaeological Record in
Alexandria, VA. In Archaeology of Urban America
Garrow 1984 Identification and Use of Context Types in Urban Archaeology. Southeastern
Archaeology 3(2)91-96.
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Yamin 1998
Lurid Tales and Homely Stories of New York’s Notorious Five Points. In
Historical Archaeology 32(1)74-85.
Cheek and Seifert 1994
Neighborhoods and Household Types in 19th Century
Washington D.C.: Fannie Hill and Mary McNamara in
Hooker's Division. In Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake
Bower and McHargue 1998 Part I: Historic Preservation, the Public, and the “Big Dig”:
“The Central Artery/Tunnel Project Preservation Program”
and “Great Expectations.” Historical Archaeology (32(3)1-23.
Week 12:
ETHNICITY
Orser 1999 Challenge of Race to American Historical Archaeology. American Anthropologist
100(661-668)
Singleton 1991: Archaeology of the Plantation South: A Review of Approaches and Goals.
Historical Archaeology 24(4)
Singleton 1999: I, Too, an America, in Archaeological Studies of African-American Life,
Theresa Singleton, editor (pg 1-17). University of Virginia Press.
Deetz 1997:
Parting Ways and the African-American Experience. In Small Things
Forgotten. (Chapters 7; Parting Ways and 8: African American Past).
Thomas 1995 Source Criticism and Interpretation of African-American Sites Southeastern
Archaeology 14(2)149-157
Landers 1990 African Presence in Early Spanish Colonization of the Caribbean and
Southeastern Borderlands, In Columbian Consequences, vol 2, edited by D.H.
Thomas.
Cusick 2000 Creolization and the Borderlands. Historical Archaeology 34(3):46-55
Loren 2000
The Intersections of Colonial policy and Practice: Creolization on the 18th
Century Louisiana/Texas Frontier. Historical Archaeology 34(3): 85-98.
Week 13 (11/24): GENDER
Seifert 1991
Gender in Historical Archaeology, Volume 25, Number 4 (read all articles)
Clements 1993 The Cultural Creation of Gender, Historical Archaeology, Vol 27, No. 4.
McEwan 1991 Archaeology of Women in the Spanish Word. Historical Archaeology, 25(4)
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Sorenson 2000 Archaeology of Gender Polity Press. Whole book
Wall 1994
Archaeology of Gender, Plenum Press. Select chapters
WEEK 14
INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OVERVIEW
Skrowneck 1998 The Spanish Philippines: Archaeological Perspectives on Colonial
Economics and Society. International Journal of Historical Archaeology
2(1)
Deagan 2003 Colonial Origins and Cultural Transformations in Spanish America
Historical Archaeology 37(4)
Lightfoot 2003 Russian Colonization: Implications of Mercantile Colonial Practices in the
North Pacific. Historical Archaeology 37(4)
McGhee 1984 Contact Between Native North Americans and the Medieval Norse: A Review
of the Evidence American Antiquity 49(1).
Shire 1991
Historical Archaeology of the Impact of Colonialism in 17th Century South
Africa In Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective edited by L. Faulk
Ritchie 2003 “In-Sites,”Historical Archaeology in Australia: Some Comparisons with the
American Colonial Experience Historical Archaeology 37(1)
Staniforth 2003 Annales Informed Approaches to the Archaeology of Colonial Australia
Historical Archaeology 37(1)
Gibbs 2003 Archaeology of Crisis: Shipwreck Survivor Camps in Australia Historical
Archaeology 37(1)
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On Reserve at Library
Thomas 1990: Columbian Consequences Volumes 2 and 3
Hahn 1987, Apalachee: Land Between the Rivers by Hahn (24-70)
Schackel and Little 1994, Historical Archaeolgoy of the Chesapeake
Deagan 1995, Puerto Real: The Archaeology of a 16th Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola
Deagan 1983, Spanish St. Augustine
Cotter, Roberts, Parrington 1993, The Buried Past: Archaeological History of Phildelphia.
Dickens 1982, Archaeology of Urban America
Thomas 1989, Fort Toulouse
Singleton 1985, The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
Deetz 1996, In Small Things Forgotten
Verano and Ubelaker 1992, Disease and Demography in the Americas
Waselkov and Hatley 1989, Powhatan's Mantle
Beaudry 1988, Documentary Archaeology in the New World
Preucel 1991, Processual and Postprocessual Archaeology
Leone and Potter 1988 The Recovery of Meaning, Smithsonian Press
Journals in the Library: Historical Archaeology, American Antiquity, Southeastern Archaeology
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