Historical archaeology of Arkansas
Subtitle: a hidden diversity
By: edited by Carl G. Drexler
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781621901822
Subjects: Archaeology; Historic sites; Archaeology and history; Research; Local History; Antiquities; Social archaeology
Description: "This manuscript brings together 9 essays on the diversity of historical archaeological research in Arkansas. The essays range from Civil War sites to an Ozark Mountain blacksmith shop to the nineteenth-century Jewish community. The editors note that this project is meant to display the research being conducted in what they consider to be a forgotten southern state in addition to the type of archaeological research that can be accomplished with the full backing of various state institutions"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Arkansas historical archaeology through time; title: Colonel Mustard and the dog with the crock in the basement : the power of things in places in antebellum Arkansas / Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy; title: Archaeology of kinship at Treat, Arkansas : intersections of past lives, memory, and identity on the landscape / Mary Z. Brennan; title: A symbolic and sacred landscape : the Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas / Duncan P. McKinnon; title: The Howe pottery (3SA340) : a traditional stoneware manufacturing site on Military Road in Benton, Arkansas / C. Andrew Buchner; title: The spread of technology to a rural Arkansas blacksmith ship / Alicia B. Valentino; title: Zachary Taylor and the Sisters of Mercy : an archeology of memory, landscape, gender, and faith on Arkansas's western frontier / Jamie C. Brandon and Jerry E. Hilliard; title: Uncovering the past : the Lewis Log Home and its place in Ozark history / Eric Proebsting; title: Thunder in the hollow : the archaeology of Missouri State Guard Artillery at the Battle of Pea Ridge / Carl G. Drexler; title: The archaeology of Judaism, slavery and assimilation on the antebellum frontier / David M. Markus.