Beneath the Ivory Tower [electronic resource] : The Archaeology of Academia /
Lewis, Kenneth E.
Skowronek, Russell K.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
Archaeology can sometimes illuminate the present as starkly as it can the past. This title offers a series of case studies to reveal the ways archaeology can offer an objective view of changes & transformations that have taken place on America's college campuses.
Archaeology can sometimes illuminate the present as starkly as it can the past. This title offers a series of case studies to reveal the ways archaeology can offer an objective view of changes & transformations that have taken place on America's college campuses.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the archaeology of academia / Kenneth E. Lewis -- Function, circumstance, and the archaeological record: the elusive past at Saint's Rest / Kenneth E. Lewis -- Exploring the foundations of Notre Dame: archaeology of old college / Mark R. Schurr -- Campus archaeology on the University of South Carolina's horseshoe / Stanley South -- Guns and roses: ritualism, time capsules, and the Massachusetts Agricultural college / Michael S. Nassaney ... [et al.] -- Campus archaeology/public archaeology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts / Johan D. Stubbs ... [et al.] -- The progressive era and sanitation reform: social purity and privies at rural schools in Northeastern Illinois / Catherine Bird, Carrie Koster, and Rochelle Lurie -- The eagle and the poor house: archaeological investigations of the University of North Carolina campus / R.P. Stephen Davis, jr., Patricia M. Samford, and Elizabeth A. Jones -- "Post-revolutionary degenercy": Washington and Lee University's landscape of control / Laura J. Galke -- Beyond the course catalogue: archaeological insights into the life of Santa Clara University / Russell K. Skowronek and Linda J. Hylkema -- Love, let, and life: an archaeology of tennis at the College of William and Mary / Donald Sadler -- Digging in the golden bear's den: archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, in three voices / Lauri A. Wilkie, Kimberly E. Christensen, and Michael A. Way -- More than bricks and mortar: a story of community archaeology / Jodie A. O'Gorman -- The campus as cultural landscape: archaeology and the formation of collegiate identity / Laura Jones -- Hail to thee, O alma mater: considering the archaeology of academia / Russell K. Skowronek.
Description based on print version record.
Excavations (Archaeology)
College environment
Universities and colleges