Readings in Historical Archaeology
The following books each offer examples and descriptions of historical archaeology. They have all been written with the non-professional in mind, and should be available through most major book retailers.
- Deetz, James
1993 Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1996 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archeology of Early American Life. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday. - Delgado, James P., ed.
1997 Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology. London: British Museum Press. - Falk, Lisa, ed.
1991 Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. - Ferguson, Leland
1992 Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. - Johnson, Matthew
1993 Housing Culture: Traditional Architecture in an English Landscape. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. - Layton, Thomas N.
1997 The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade. Stanford University Press. - Noël Hume, Ivor
1982 Martin's Hundred. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. - Pounds, Norman J. G.
1989 Hearth & Home: A History of Material Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. - Rathje, William L. and Cullen Murphy.
1992 Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage. New York: Harper Collins Publisher. - Samford, Particia and David L. Ribblett.
1995 Archaeology for Young Explorers. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg foundation. - Schrire, Carmel
1995 Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. - Scott, Elizabeth M., ed.
1994 Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in Historical Archaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. - Spector, Janet D.
1993 What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. - Yentsch, Anne Elizabeth
1994 A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
