Historical Archaeology
ANT 412
Fall 2009

 Exam III Review

Middle Passage
Senegambia
slavers/Guineamen/slave ships
master/planter
overseer
paddyroller
slaves
drivers
auction houses
slave narratives
Federal Writer’s Project
plantation “core”
big house
privy
cistern
parterres (formal gardens)
dependencies
garçonnieres
pigionnieres (dovecotes)
Quarters Area
plantation landscape – components
arpent
double concession
single pen
double pen
saddlebag
Louisiana cane plantation settlement patterns – linear, nodal block & bayou block
Evergreen Plantation, Louisiana
'Moral Mission' archaeology
Cultural Resource Management – Phase I, II and III
Reed Farmstead
soil chemistries & ph – determinations of activity areas
scutching bee
flax
log cabins
patent medicine bottles
boomtown’ saloons
Virginia City, Nevada
Bucket of Blood & Boston Saloons
Historic American Engineering Record
Southern Coal Fields
Ludlow Tent Colony/Massacre, Colorado
‘dead work’
check-weighmen
company store & scrip
the ‘death special’
tailing/spoil pile
mine safety
mining in the “World System”
horizontal stratigraphy
feature systems
African Burial Ground
mortuary segregation along racial/ethnic lines
Michael Blakey
Sanfoka symbol and other Africanisms
descendant communities/activists
public archaeology

Theresa Singleton, a leading researcher in African-American life during the 19th century, has identified several major research issues in Plantation Archaeology, a sub-field of Historical Archaeology.  Describe each of the various research domains in African-American historical archaeology and provide examples from some of the plantations we've discussed to illustrate each.

Discuss the structural components of 19th century plantations.  What were the 'parts' of a typical southern plantation?  What buildings and features made up the 'central core' of a typical plantation?

Why do historical archaeologists study rural farmsteads?  What methods are used to study farmsteads?  Since they are both farms, what are the principal differences between rural farmsteads and plantations?

What kinds of insights into Western frontier life has Kelly Dixon’s work provided in recent years?  How have some traditional views of life in ‘boomtowns’ changed?  Be sure to provide specific examples based on archaeological work conducted at places like the Boston Saloon.

What kinds of research topics do researchers often focus on when studying historic industrial sites?  In other words, why do researchers study these kinds of sites?  What kinds of data are available for study at these types of sites?  What do historical archaeologists hope to learn as a result of their work at these kinds of sites?

What main topics are studied by researchers interested in that sub-field of Industrial Archaeology called Mining Archaeology?  What does Donald Hardesty have to say about these topics in his paper “The Archaeology of Mines and Miners: A View from the Silver State”?

Discuss some of the labor issues that miners in Colorado’s Southern Coal Fields had with mine management.  What were miners asking for and in what ways did mine companies deal with labor ‘problems’ in the early part of the twentieth Century?

Summarize three (3) of the main points that Barbara Little makes in the last four assigned chapters of her book Historical Archaeology.  Why does Little thinks these topics of discussion are noteworthy?

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