Shovel ready
Subtitle: archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
By: edited by Bernard K. Means
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780817357184; 9780817386252
Subjects: Historic preservation; United States. Work Projects Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States; History; United States. Civilian Conservation Corp; Archaeology; Archaeology and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "alphabet soup" and American archaeology / Brnard K. Means; title: The first stimulus package : the WPA and the New Jersey Indian Site Survey / Gregory D. Lattanzi; title: Historical archaeology's "New Deal" in Pennsylvania / Janet R. Johnson; title: Archaeologist #.00000000000000000 : Edgar E. Augustine and New Deal excavations in the Great Depression begets a great expansion : field museum anthropology, 1929-1941 / Stephen E. Nash; title: Project 1047 : New Deal archaeology in Iowa / John F. Doershuk and John L. Cordell; title: The last of WPA archaeology in Oklahoma : the Clement and McDonald sites / Amanda L. Regnier, Patrick C. Livingood, and Scott W. Hammerstedt; title: Trouble in the glen : the battle over Kentucky Lake archaeology / David H. Dye; title: WPA archaeology at the Slayden Site, Humphreys County, Tennessee / Anna R. Lunn; title: Culture, time, and practice : the shifting interpretive potential of New Deal era collections / Sissel Schroeder; title: New Deal archaeology in west-central Kentucky : excavations at Annis Village / Scott W. Hammerstedt; title: Preston Holder's WPA excavations in Glynn and Chatham counties, Georgia; title: 1936-1938 / Kevin Kiernan; title: The Resettlement Administration and the historical archaeology of the Georgia Piedmont / James R. Wettstaed; title: Conclusion : shovels at the ready : work relief and American archaeology, today and tomorrow / Bernard K. Means.