Unlocking The Past : Celebrating Historical Archaeology In North America

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Stuff of Histories and Cultures 1(14) Lu Ann De Cunzo Part 1. Cultures in Contact: Melting Pots or Not? 15(36) Lu Ann De Cunzo 1. Spaniards and Native Americans at the Missions of La Florida 19(6) Jerald T. Milanich 2. Bioarchaeology of the Spanish Missions 25(5) Clark Spencer Larsen 3. African Americans on Southern Plantations 30(6) Leland Ferguson, from Uncommon Ground, adapted by Lu Ann De Cunzo 4. Black Seminole Freedom Fighters on the Florida Frontier 36(9) Terrance Weik 5. The Chinese in the Cities of the West 45(8) Roberta S. Greenwood Part 2. Challenging and Changing Environments: Exploring New Lands and Exploiting New Environments 51(28) Lu Ann De Cunzo 6. Early Encounters with a "New" Land: Vikings and Englishmen in the North American Arctic 53(9) William Fitzhugh 7. Jamestown, Virginia 62(6) Andrew Edwards 8. The Shipwreck of La Salle's La Belle 68(4) James E. Bruseth 9. Mining the West 72(7) R. Scott Baxter and Rebecca Allen Part 3. Building Cities: Tales of Many Cities 79(38) Lu Ann De Cunzo 10. Quebec City, Canada 82(7) William Moss 11. New York City 89(8) Diana diZerega Wall and Nan A. Rothschild 12. Community Archaeology in Alexandria, Virginia 97(5) Pamela J. Cressey 13. Urban Life in Colonial Charleston, South Carolina 102(8) Martha Zierden 14. "A Place to Start From": West Oakland, California 110(9) Lu Ann De Cunzo and Mary Praetzellis Part 4. Making a Living in Rural America: The Archaeology of Work 117(32) Lu Ann De Cunzo 15. The Archaeology of Agricultural Life 119(15) Sara Mascia 16. The Archaeology of Rural Industry 134(17) David R. Starbuck Part 5. Cultures in Conflict: Contests on Land and at Sea 149(34) Lu Ann De Cunzo 17. The Archaeology of America's Colonial Wars 151(9) David R. Starbuck 18. The Civil War Under Water 160(6) Sarah McDowell, with contributions by Mark Wilde-Ramsing 19. Native and "Newcomer": Battle of Little Bighorn 166(8) Richard A. Fox 20. A Global Contest: World War II 174(11) Daniel Lenihan, Gary Cummins, James Delgado, David Clark, and Lu Ann De Cunzo Part 6. Unlock the Past for the Future: From the Past in the Present to the Future 183(22) Lu Ann De Cunzo 21. Conserving Our Past 185(4) Lisa Young 22. Historical Archaeology That Matters Beyond Academics 189(6) Maria Franklin 23. The Past Belongs to Us All 195(5) John Triggs 24. Does Historical Archaeology Really Matter in Today's World? 200(5) Audrey Horning Epilogue 205(8) John H. Jameson Jr. For Further Reading and Viewing 213(12) Contributors 225(4) Index 229