List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section I: Foundations of Historical Archaeology – Chapter 1 What Is Historical Archaeology?; Chapter 2 A Brief History of Historical Archaeology; Chapter 3 Culture, History, and Archaeological Sites; Chapter 4 Time and Space; Section II: Doing Historical Archaeology – Chapter 5 Finding and Surveying Sites in Historical Archaeology; Chapter 6 Pre-Excavation Fieldwork: Documents, Interviews, Buildings; Chapter 7 Archaeological Fieldwork and Laboratory Analysis; Chapter 8 Interpreting Artifacts in Historical Archaeology; Chapter 9 Public Historical Archaeology; Section III: Interpretation in Historical Archaeology – Chapter 10 Theoretical Perspectives in Historical Archaeology; Chapter 11 The Historical Archaeology of Groups; Chapter 12 Historical Archaeology and the Wider World; Chapter 13 Historical Archaeology Today; Further Reading of Sources Used; Index.
Biography
Charles E. Orser, Jr. is Adjunct Professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and Research Professor with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. His latest book is Mutualist Archaeology, and he is the founder and editor of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
