Martin Hall & Stephen W. Silliman 
Historical Archaeology 

This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in
historical archaeology selected from around the world, including
North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe.

* Authored by 19 experts in the field.

* Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work,
piecing together information from both material culture and
documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and
societies they study.

* Engages with current theory in an accessible manner.

* Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local
experiences of people into global patterns.

* Summarizes not only the current state of historical
archaeology, but also sets the course for the field in decades to
come.

Table of Content

List of Figures.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World. (Martin Hall
and Stephen W. Silliman).

Part I: Dimensions of Practice.

2. Environments of History: Biological Dimensions of Historical
Archaeology. (Stephen A. Mrozowski).

3. Material Culture and Text: Exploring the Spaces Within and
Between. (Patricia Galloway).

4. The Place of Space: Architecture, Landscape, and Social Life.
(Elizabeth P. Pauls).

5. Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present. (Matthew M.
Palus , Mark P. Leone and Matthew D. Cochran).

Part II: Themes in Interpretation.

6. Engendered Archaeology: Women, Men, and Others. (Barbara L.
Voss).

7. Ideology and the Material Culture of Life and Death. (Heather
Burke).

8. Struggling with Labor, Working with Identities. (Stephen W.
Silliman).

9. Exploring the Institution: Reform, Confinement, Social
Change. (Lu Ann De Cunzo).

10. A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and
Conflict. (Lou Ann Wurst).

Part III: World Systems and Local Living.

11. Conquistadors, Plantations, and Quilombo: Latin America in
Historical Archaeological Context. Pedro Funari
(DH/IFCH/Unicamp).

12. Gold, Black Ivory, and Houses of Stone: Historical
Archaeology in Africa. (Innocent Pikirayi).

13. Becoming American: Small Things Remembered. (Diana Di Paolo
Loren and Mary C. Beaudry).

14. Mission, Gold, Furs, and Manifest Destiny: Rethinking an
Archaeology of Colonialism for Western North America. (Kent G.
Lightfoot).

15. Pacific Encounters, or Beyond the Islands of History. (Jane
Lydon).

16. The Tide Reversed: Prospects and Potentials for a
Postcolonial Archaeology of Europe. (Matthew Johnson).

Index

About the author

Martin Hall is Deputy Vice Chancellor and former Professor
of Historical Archaeology, University of Cape Town.

Stephen W. Silliman is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.