HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR (ANG 5175)
SYLLABUS SPRING 2004
Seminars will are interactive sessions for critical review and discussion of assigned
readings on specific concepts and information. Readings are listed for each week and each
session has a pre-assigned student discussion leader who will lead the discussion and review of
the readings. Each student must lead one seminar and a few students will lead two. 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, and bringing
additional outside information to the seminar is encouraged. The grade for the discussion
leadership makes up 20% of the grade for this course. If a student is a discussion leader for more
than one session, the scores will be averaged.
RESEARCH PAPER: A research paper is required, and it is 40% of the course grade.
Research topics are open, but it is recommended that students select a topic that is related to their
thesis topic and interest. Both historical and archeological information must be used.
Required research paper sections:
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Introduction (abstract) and research question statement
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Methodology used to gather information
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Analysis and integration of the information
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Results of the research must be clearly stated
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Conclusions must be drawn
Presentation: A presentation of the research will be made to the seminar class.
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Length: 30 and 45 minutes
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Content: include all the sections of the paper
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Use visual aids (Powerpoint, slides, overheads, handouts, artifacts, etc.)
Paper Due Dates:
Oct 16
Submission of proposed research paper topic:
Research question, methods, basic bibliography (1-3 typed pages)
Nov 13
First draft of papers due at beginning of class*
Nov 20
Edited drafts returned
Nov 27
Final draft of papers due*
*letter grade reduction for every day late
FINAL EXAM: A comprehensive final exam will be required in this course and it will make
up 40% of the grade
GRADE DETERMINATION:
20%
40%
40%
Discussion leadership
Research Paper
Final Exam
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR (ANG 5175)
SYLLABUS FALL 2002
Discussion Leader
Week 1 (9/4):
THEORY
Paul
Week 2 (9/11):
METHODS
Week 3 (9/??)
ETHNOHISTORY
Week 4 (8/25):
CONTACT ARCHAEOLOGY& MISSIONS
Week 5 (10/2):
COLONIAL SETTLEMENTS
Week 6 (10/9):
SHIPWRECKS
Week 7 (10/16)
PLANTATIONS
Research Paper Topic Proposal Due
Week 8 (10/23)
FARMSTEADS
Week 9 (10/30)
POST-COLONIAL TOWNS AND CITIES
Week 10(11/6)
ETHNICITY
Week 11 (11/13)
GENDER
First draft of research paper due)
Week 12 (11/20):
INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Week 13 (11/27)
STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATIONS
RESEARCH PAPERS DUE
Week 14 (12/4)
STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATIONS
12/11
FINAL EXAM
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
Week 1:
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 2:
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 3:
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.
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Deagan 1990 Accommodation and Resistance: The Process and Impact of Spanish
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
Week 4 : FIRST CONTACT: MISSIONS, AND POPULATION DECLINE
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. Archaeology.
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. 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
Thomas 1990 The Spanish Missions of La Florida: An Overview. In Columbian
Consequences Volume 2 ed by Thomas (357-397)
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
Week 5:
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).
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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
Week 6:
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
Archaeology 36(1)
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.
Smith 1988
Treasure Ships of the Spanish Main: Iberian-American Empires. In Ships
and Shipwrecks of the Americas ed. Bass (84-106).
Smith et. al 1998
Gould 2000
The Emmanuel Point Ship: Archaeological Investigations 1996-1997.
Florida Department of State Division of Historical Resources. Bureau of
Archaeological Research.
Archaeology and the Social History of Ships. Chapter 1 (Interpreting the
Archaeological Record) and Chapter 12 (The Future of Underwater
Archaeology).
Week 7: PLANTATIONS
Singleton 1991
The Archaeology of Slave Life.
Archaeology (141-165)
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In Orser Readings in Historical
Wheaton and Garrow 1985
Armstrong 1985
Joseph 1993
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)
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 8:
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
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Week 9: 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.
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 10:
ETHNICITY (find other ethnicities and shorten African readings)
African
Singleton 1991:
Singleton 1999:
Deetz 1997:
Archaeology of the Plantation South: A Review of Approaches and
Goals. Historical Archaeology 24(4)
I, Too, an America, in Archaeological Studies of African-American Life,
Theresa Singleton, editor (pg 1-17). University of Virgonia Press.
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.
Cheek and Friedlander 1990
Pottery and Pig's Feet: Space, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood in Washington
D.C., 1880-1940. In Historical Archaeology 24(1)34-60.
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Creolization
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 11 (11/24): GENDER
Spencer-Wood 2000 Strange Attractors: Feminist Theory, Non-Linear Systems theory,
and Their Implications for Archaeological Theory. In Social Theory in
Archaeology , Edited by Michael B Schiffer.
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.
Cunzo 2001
Introduction and Historical Context for the Archaeological Institutions of
Reform. Part I: Asylums. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 5(1)
McEwan 1991 Archaeology of Women in the Spanish Word. Historical Archaeology, 25(4)
Week 12: INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Winter 1994 Antietam Furnace: A Frontier Ironworks in the Great Valley of Maryland. .
In Historical Archaeolgoy of the Chesapeake (205-218)
Faulkner 1982 The Weaver Pottery: Late 19th Vrnyuty Family Industry in a Southeastern
Urban Setting. In Archaeology of Urban America edited by Dickens (209-236)
Ingle 1982
Industrial Site Building: Implications from 1978-1979 Investigations at the
Rogers Locomotive Works, Paterson, New Jersey. In Archaeology of Urban
America edited by Dickens (237-256)
Phillips 1993 Arcadia: An Early 19th Century Water-Powered Industrial /complex in
Northwest Florida. Archaeology Institute, UWF, Report of Investigations No.
44. Review entire publication.
Frazen 1992
Northern Michigan Logging Camps: Material Culture and Worker
Adaptation to the Industrial Frontier. Historical Archaeology 26(2) 74-98.
WEEKS 14 AND 15: GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (30-45 minutes each)
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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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