Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape
Autor Rebecca Yamin Contribuţii de Karen Bescherer Methenyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2019
The book’s overall approach is interpretive and interdisciplinary, drawing not simply on archaeological evidence but on oral history, written sources, ethnographic data, and human experience. The contributors examine a variety of questions and methods for recovering and interpreting past landscapes. How, for example, did an elite family in eighteenth-century New Jersey express its status and values through its manipulation of the landscape and how, indeed, do archaeologists derive that information from remains in the ground? What do the ruins left standing in a rural landscape say about attitudes toward time and family? How do the fields and yards of small farms reveal sociopolitical forces affecting the society at large?
The essays in Part I study gardens belonging to elite men and women—including those of American presidents whose houses have become important patriotic symbols. The essays in Part II look beyond the confines of single properties to reveal broader patterns in the historical landscape. The preface and introductory essay provide a theoretical framework for the volume and an overview of the current state of research in the field. The result is a book that will interest not only historical archaeologists but all students of the landscape.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781621904670
ISBN-10: 1621904679
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 216 x 267 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:1st Edition, with a new Preface
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN-10: 1621904679
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 216 x 267 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:1st Edition, with a new Preface
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
Notă biografică
Rebecca Yamin is a principal archaeologist for John Miller and Associates in Philadelphia.
Karen Bescherer Metheny is completing a doctorate in archaeological studies at Boston University.
Karen Bescherer Metheny is completing a doctorate in archaeological studies at Boston University.