Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology

Charles E. Orser is the Editor of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University, USA.

• Acadian sites; acculteration; aerial photography; Africa, East; Africa, maritime archaeology; Africa, North; Africa, South; Africa, West; African Burial Ground; African-American archaeology; Aksum, Ethiopia; almshouses; America, Central; America, Western; Amsterdam; Amsterdam shipwreck; Angkor, Cambodia; Annapolis, MD; Antarctica; architecture; Asia; assimilation; Audley End, England; Australasia; Australia; Australian Aboriginal historical archaeology; Australian Society for Historical Archaeology; Aztec archaeology; backyard archaeology; Basing House, England; Battle of Little Bighorn; battlefield archaeology; beads; behavioural historical archaeology; belief systems; Benin city, Nigeria; Bergen, Norway; Bertrand, steamboat; Biblical archaeology; biological anthropology; Black Death; Boott Mill, MA; Bordesley abbey, England; bottles, glass; Brazil; Brunswick Town, NC; Buenos Aires, Argentina; buttons; Canada, western; Cannon's Point Plantation, GA; Cape Town, South Africa; capitalism; Caribbean archaeology; Carter's Grove, VA; cathedrals; cemetries; ceramics; Chesapeake region, US; children; China; Christianization; churches; churchyard archaeology; class, social; classical archaeology; classification; coffee; cognitive archaeology; colonialism; colonoware pottery; commodification; computers; Conference on Historical Site Archaeology; conservation, terrestrial; conservation, underwater; Constantinople; consumer choice; consumption; contact archaeology; contextual historical archaeology; Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology; creamware; Creolization; Crusades; cultural resource manage; culture; culture history; Cuzco, Peru; dating methods; dendrochronology; Deptford dockyard, London; Deptford, London; deserted villages; destruction, site; diaspora; disease; Dolly's Creek Goldfield; domestic sites; domesticity; domination; dress; Dutch colonialism; Dutch East India Company (VOC); Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipwrecks; earthenware; Elmina, Ghana; Elverton Street; England; English colonialism; environmental reconstruction; environmental studies; ethnicity; ethnoarchaeology; ethnographic analogy; ethnography; everyday life; excavation methods, terrestrial; excavation methods, underwater; exploration; farmstead archaeology; Fatherland site, MS; Feddersen Wierde, Germany; feminist archaeology; feminist theory; Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada; firearms; First Government House; Five Points, New York City, USA; Flögeln, Germany; Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, Virginia, USA; folk typology; folklore; folklore and folklife studies; food and foodways; forensic anthropology; forensic archaeology; formula dating; Fort Michilimackinac, MI, USA; Fort Mose, FL, USA; Fort Necessity, PA, USA; Fort Union, ND, USA; fortifications; Fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, Canada; Fowey, HMS; French colonialism; fur trade archaeology; Fyrkat, Denmark; Garbage Project; garden archaeology; Geldersman shipwreck; gender; genealogical research; Georgian Order; glass; globalization; Globe Theatre, London; Gothenburg, Sweden; Gotland, Denmark; gravestones; Great Zimbabwe; Greenwich (royal palace), England; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, USA; Harris matrix; health; heritage management; Herjolfsnes, Greenland; Hermitage plantation, Tennessee, USA; Historic American Building survey; Historic American Engineering Review; historical documents; history of historical archaeology; Hollandia shipwreck; household archaeology; Huánuco Pampa, Peru; human osteology; identity, social; ideology; immigration; industrial archaeology; industrialization; institutions; interdisciplinary research; International Journal of Historical Archaeology; Ireland; iron production; ironstone ceramics; Isabelle, La; Jamestown, VA; L'Anse aux Meadow; La Purisma Misison; laboratory methods; Lake Innes Estate; landscape studies; language; leisure; Like-a-Fishook, ND; linguistic analysis; living museums; local history; Longton Hall (porcelain factory); looting; Lund,

'Highly readable ... Most valuable for college and university libraries supporting curricula in anthropology, history, and museum studies.' - Choice'This guide defines the field of historical archaeology and serves as an excellent introduction for students. Highly recommended for academic libraries.' - Reference Reviews January 2003'Clearly written and well-referenced...most useful for large public libraries; university libraries suuporting degree programs in archaeology, anthropology, history, and conservation studies; and museum libraries.' - Robert B. Marks Ridinger, American Reference Books Annual 2003