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2016
2016
Book Reviews 50(2)
- The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century ALASDAIR BROOKS (EDITOR)
Paul R. Mullins - Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation PAUL CORNISH AND NICHOLAS J. SAUNDERS (EDITORS)
Richard G. Ervin - Beyond the Walls: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households KEVIN R. FOGLE, JAMES A. NYMAN, AND MARY C. BEAUDRY (EDITORS)
Thomas Wheeler - Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America CHRISTINA J. HODGE
Richard Veit - Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes JAN KOLEN, HANS RENES, AND RITA HERMANS (EDITORS)
Thomas w. Gallant - Sobre Campos De Batalla: Arqueología de Conflictos Bélicos en América Latina CARLOS LANDA AND ODLANYER HERNÁNDEZ DE LARA (EDITORS)
Jorge Provenzali - Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare TERESA S. MOYER
Julie H. Ernstein - Power in Stone: Cities as Symbols of Empire GEOFFREY PARKER
Brian Wilson - Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook, 2nd edition PRUDENCE M. RICE
Linda R. Pomper - A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp DANIEL O. SAYER
Michael T. Lucas - Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things II JULIE M. SCHABLITSKY AND MARK P. LEONE (EDITORS
Christopher P. Barton - Historical Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape CARMEL SCHRIRE (EDITOR)
Sean Hamilton Reid - Between the Devil and the Deep: Meeting Challenges in the Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Heritage DELLA A. SCOTT-IRETON (EDITOR)
Daniel Hughes - Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake PAUL A. SHACKEL AND BARBARA J. LITTLE (EDITORS)
Jason Shellenhamer - Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues NAOMI SYKES
Adam R. Heinrich - Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy MICHAEL A. TOMLAN
Ian Burrow - The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco, revised edition BARBARA L. VOSS
Kelly J. Dixon - The Wreck of the America in Southern Illinois: A Flatboat on the Ohio River MARK J. WAGNER
- Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War 1675–1676 JASON W. WARREN
Jenn Ogborne - Field Archaeologist’s Survival Guide: Getting a Job and Working in Cultural Resource Management CHRIS WEBSTE
Lyle C. Torp
2015
Book Reviews 49(4)
- Arcangeli: Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe
Hayden F. Bassett - Aygen: International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation: Saving the World’s Past
Sophie Roark - Baugher and Veit: The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
Gaynell Stone (posted soon) - Bêty and Fortier: L’îlot des Palais: Chantier-école de l’Universit é Laval, saison 2007
Pelletier, Parent, and Beaudry: L’îlot des Palais: Chantier- école de l’Université Laval, saison 2008
Alasdair Brooks - Breen: Dunluce Castle: History and Archaeology
Scott D. Stull - Card (editor): The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture
David Tutchener - Crossland: Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead
Michael T. Lucas - Day (editor): Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
Lewis C. Jones - Matthews and McGovern (editors): The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast
Michael J. Gall - Spencer-Wood (editor): Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Public to Private
Christina J. Hodge
Book Reviews 49(2)
- The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg (2013)
Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury (Editors) - Lima Subterránea: Arqueología Histórica: Criptas, Bóvedas, Canales Virreinales y Republicanos (2014)
Richard Chuhue and Pieter Van Dalen (Editors) - Supplying Custer: The Powder River Supply Depot, 1876 (2012)
Gerald R. Clark - An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: The Hyde Park Barracks, 1848–1886 (2013)
Peter Davies, Penny Crook, and Tim Murray - The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in the Plantation System (2014)
James A. Delle - Medieval Haywharf to 20th-Century Brewery: Excavations at Watermark Place, City of London (2015)
Louise Fowler and Anthony Mackinder - First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York (2011)
Robert S. Grumet - Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (2014)
Bjonar Olsen AND Þora Petursdottir (Editors) - The Archaeology of American Cities (2014)
Nan A. Rothschild and Diana Dizerega Wall - The Legacy of Fort William Henry: Resurrecting the Past (2014)
Davis R. StarbuckK - Corporate Responsibility for Cultural Heritage: Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Reputation (2013)
Fiona Starr
2014
- Book Reviews 48(2) (PDF)
- Babits and Gandulla (editors): The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts
Kate Egner Gruber - Browman: Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology
Kristen R. Fellows - Cipolla: Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World
Marshall Joseph Becker - Dalglish (editor): Archaeology, the Public and the Recent Past
Helen Keremedjiev - Haendel (editor): Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia
Alasdair Brooks - Hayes: Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island’s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884
Gaynell Stone - Hubka: Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses.
Hayden F. Bassett - Kelso (editor): Archaeology of Early European Colonial Settlement in the Emerging Atlantic World.
Shannon Dunn - Knappett (editor): Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction
Jamieson-Lee Scott - Morin: The Legacy of American Copper Smelting: Industrial Heritage versus Environmental Policy
Maclaren North - Posnansky: Africa and Archaeology: Empowering an Expatriate Life
Joanna Behrens - Piker: The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
Chris Espenshade - Richards and Seeb (editors): The Archaeology of Watercraft Abandonment
Ronald Grayson - Rothschild: New York City Neighborhoods: The 18th Century
Scott D. Stull - Staniforth (editor): Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation
Owen W. Sutton - Sullivan and Mackay (editors): Archaeological Sites: Conservation and Management
John M. Chenoweth
- Babits and Gandulla (editors): The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts
- Book Reviews 48(4) (PDF)
- Gibson: Ceramic Makers’ Marks
Thomas E. Beaman, Jr. - Geier, Scott, and Babits (editors): From These Honored Dead: Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War
Drew A. Gruber - Horning: Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
James G. Gibb - Lyttleton: The Jacobean Plantations in Seventeenth-Century Offaly: An Archaeology of a Changing World
Luke J. Pecoraro - Mathers, Mitchem, and Haecker (editors): Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast
Tsim D. Schneider -
Means (editor): Shovel Ready: Archaeology and Roosevelt’s New Deal for America
David Gerald Orr - Mehler (editor): Historical Archaeology in Central Europe
Craig Lukezic - Mitchell-Cook: A Sea of Misadventures: Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
Heather Hatch - Murray: American Anthropology & Company: Historical Explorations
Tom Flanigan - Peres (editor): Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology
T. Cregg Madrigal - Pope (editor) with Lewis-Simpson: Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Transience and Permanence in New Found Lands
Lynn L.M. Evans - Rice: Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua
S. Piddock - Stojanowski: Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetery Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida
Elizabeth Terese Newman - Thompson and Thomas (editors): Life among the Tides: Recent Archaeology on the Georgia Bight
Tsim D. Schneider - Wetherington and Levine (editors): Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Smoke Pfeiffer
- Gibson: Ceramic Makers’ Marks
2013
- Book Reviews 47(2) (PDF)
- Book Reviews 47(4) (PDF)
2012
- Reviews 46(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 46(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 46(4) (PDF)
2011
- Reviews 45(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 45(4) (PDF)
2010
- Reviews 44(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 44(4) (PDF)
2009
- Table of Contents 43(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 43(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 43(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 43(4) (PDF)
2008
- Table of Contents 42(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 42(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 42(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 42(4) (PDF File)
2007
- Table of Contents 41(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 41(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 41(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 41(4) (PDF)
2006
- Table of Contents 40(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 40(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 40(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 40(4) (PDF)
2005
- Table of Contents 39(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 39(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 39(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 39(4) (PDF)
2004
- Table of Contents 38(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 38(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 38(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 38(4) (PDF)
2003
- Table of Contents 37(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 37(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 37(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 37(4) (PDF)
2002
- Table of Contents 36(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 36(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 36(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 36(4) (PDF)
2001
- Table of Contents 35(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 35(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 35(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 35(4) (PDF)
2000
- Table of Contents 34(2) (PDF)
- Reviews 34(2) (PDF)
- Table of Contents 34(4) (PDF)
- Reviews 34(4) (PDF)