ABSTRACT

The Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology is a ground-breaking compendium of information about this ever-growing field. Concentrating on the post-1400 period as well as containing generic explanations of historical archaeology where needed, the encyclopedia is compiled by over 120 experts from around the world and contains more than 370 entries covering important concepts and sites.

letter |43 pages

A

entry |4 pages

Acadian sites

entry |2 pages

Acculturation

entry |1 pages

Aerial Photography

entry |3 pages

Africa, maritime archaeology

entry |3 pages

African American archaeology

entry |1 pages

African Burial Ground

entry |1 pages

Aksum, Ethiopia

entry |2 pages

Almshouses

entry |1 pages

Amsterdam, Netherlands

entry |1 pages

Amsterdam, shipwreck

entry |2 pages

Angkor, Cambodia

entry |3 pages

Annapolis, Maryland, USA

entry |2 pages

Antarctica

entry |3 pages

Architecture

entry |3 pages

Asia

entry |2 pages

Assimilation

entry |1 pages

Audley End, England

entry |1 pages

Australasia

entry |1 pages

Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology

entry |3 pages

Australia

entry |4 pages

Australian Aboriginal historical archaeology

entry |1 pages

Aztec archaeology

letter |32 pages

B

entry |2 pages

Backyard Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Basing House, England

entry |1 pages

Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana, USA

entry |3 pages

Battlefield Archaeology

entry |2 pages

Beads

entry |1 pages

Behavioural Historical Archaeology

entry |2 pages

Belief Systems

entry |1 pages

Benin City,. Nigeria

entry |1 pages

Bergen, Norway

entry |1 pages

Bertrand, steamboat

entry |3 pages

Biblical Archaeology

entry |3 pages

Biological Anthropology

entry |1 pages

Black Death

entry |1 pages

Boott Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

entry |1 pages

Bordesley Abbey, England

entry |3 pages

Bottles

entry |1 pages

Brazil

entry |1 pages

Brunswick Town, North Carolina, USA

entry |2 pages

Buenos Aires, Argentina

entry |1 pages

Buttons

letter |70 pages

C

entry |3 pages

Canada, western

entry |2 pages

Cannon's Point Plantation, Georgia, USA

entry |1 pages

Cape Town, South Africa

entry |4 pages

Capitalism

entry |3 pages

Caribbean archaeology

entry |1 pages

Carter's Grove, Virginia, USA

entry |1 pages

Cathedrals

entry |2 pages

Cemeteries

entry |3 pages

Central America

entry |2 pages

Ceramics

entry |2 pages

Chesapeake region, USA

entry |1 pages

Children

entry |3 pages

China

entry |1 pages

Christianisation

entry |2 pages

Churches

entry |1 pages

Churchyard Archaeology

entry |2 pages

Class, Social

entry |3 pages

Classical Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Classification

entry |1 pages

Coffee

entry |2 pages

Cognitive Archaeology

entry |2 pages

Colonialism

entry |2 pages

Colonoware Pottery

entry |1 pages

Commodification

entry |1 pages

Computers

entry |1 pages

Conference on Historic Site Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Conservation, Terrestrial

entry |2 pages

Conservation, Underwater

entry |2 pages

Constantinople

entry |3 pages

Consumer Choice

entry |3 pages

Consumption

entry |1 pages

Contact Archaeology

entry |3 pages

Contextual Historical Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Creamware

entry |1 pages

Creolisation

entry |1 pages

Crusades

entry |1 pages

Cultural-Resource Management

entry |2 pages

Culture

entry |1 pages

Culture History

entry |1 pages

Cuzco, Peru

letter |20 pages

D

entry |2 pages

Dating Methods

entry |1 pages

Dendrochronology

entry |1 pages

Deptford Dockyard, London, England

entry |1 pages

Deptford, London, England

entry |1 pages

Deserted Villages

entry |2 pages

Destruction, Site

entry |1 pages

Diaspora

entry |1 pages

Disease

entry |1 pages

Dolly's Creek goldfield, Australia

entry |2 pages

Domestic Sites

entry |2 pages

Domesticity

entry |1 pages

Domination

entry |1 pages

Dress

entry |3 pages

Dutch colonialism

entry |1 pages

Dutch East India Company

letter |32 pages

E

entry |2 pages

Earthenware

entry |3 pages

East Africa

entry |1 pages

Elmina, Ghana

entry |1 pages

Elverton Street, near Westminster, England

entry |4 pages

England

entry |2 pages

English colonialism

entry |2 pages

Environmental Reconstruction

entry |2 pages

Environmental Studies

entry |3 pages

Ethnicity

entry |1 pages

Ethnoarchaeology

entry |1 pages

Ethnographic Analogy

entry |2 pages

Ethnography

entry |3 pages

Everyday life

entry |1 pages

Excavation Methods, Terrestrial

entry |4 pages

Excavation Methods, Underwater

entry |1 pages

Exploration

letter |42 pages

F

entry |2 pages

Farmstead Archaeology in Canada and the USA

entry |1 pages

Fatherland site, Mississippi, USA

entry |3 pages

Feddersen Wierde, Lower Saxony, Germany

entry |2 pages

Feminist Archaeology

entry |4 pages

Feminist Theory

entry |1 pages

Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada

entry |2 pages

Firearms

entry |1 pages

First Government House, Australia

entry |1 pages

Five Points, New York City, USA

entry |2 pages

Flögeln, Lower Saxony, Germany

entry |1 pages

Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, Virginia, USA

entry |1 pages

Folk Typology

entry |2 pages

Folklore

entry |2 pages

Folklore and Folklife Studies

entry |1 pages

Food and Foodways

entry |2 pages

Forensic Anthropology

entry |1 pages

Forensic Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Formula Dating

entry |1 pages

Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan, USA

entry |1 pages

Fort Mose, Florida, USA

entry |1 pages

Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania, USA

entry |1 pages

Fort Union, North Dakota, USA

entry |2 pages

Fortifications

entry |2 pages

Fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, Canada

entry |1 pages

Fowey, HMS

entry |3 pages

French colonialism

entry |3 pages

Fur-Trade Archaeology in Western Canada

entry |1 pages

Fyrkat, Denmark

letter |20 pages

G

entry |2 pages

Garbage Project

entry |3 pages

Garden Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Geldermalsen, shipwreck

entry |4 pages

Gender

entry |1 pages

Genealogical Research

entry |1 pages

Georgian Order

entry |2 pages

Glass

entry |1 pages

Globalisation

entry |1 pages

Globe Theatre, London

entry |1 pages

Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden

entry |1 pages

Gotland, Sweden

entry |1 pages

Gravestones

entry |1 pages

Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

entry |1 pages

Greenwich Palace, England

letter |19 pages

H

entry |2 pages

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA

entry |1 pages

Harris matrix

entry |1 pages

Health

entry |2 pages

Heritage Management

entry |1 pages

Herjolfsnes, Greenland

entry |1 pages

Hermitage Plantation, Tennessee, USA

entry |1 pages

Historic American Building Survey

entry |1 pages

Historic American Engineering Record

entry |3 pages

Historical Documents

entry |2 pages

History of Historical Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Hollandia, shipwreck

entry |3 pages

Household Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Huánuco Pampa, Peru

entry |1 pages

Human Osteology

letter |23 pages

I

entry |4 pages

Identity

entry |2 pages

Ideology

entry |2 pages

Immigration

entry |4 pages

Industrial Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Industrialisation

entry |3 pages

Institutions

entry |2 pages

Interdisciplinary Research

entry |1 pages

International Journal of Historical Archaeology

entry |3 pages

Ireland

entry |1 pages

Iron Production

entry |1 pages

Ironstone

letter |2 pages

J

entry |2 pages

Jamestown, Virginia, USA

letter |19 pages

L

entry |1 pages

La Isabella, Dominican Republic

entry |1 pages

La Purisima Mission, California, USA

entry |2 pages

Laboratory Methods

entry |1 pages

Lake Innes Estate, Australia

entry |3 pages

Landscape Studies

entry |1 pages

Language

entry |1 pages

L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada

entry |1 pages

Leisure

entry |1 pages

Like-a-Fishhook Village, North Dakota, USA

entry |1 pages

Linguistic Analysis

entry |1 pages

Living Museums

entry |3 pages

Local History

entry |1 pages

Longton Hall, Stoke-on-Trent, England

entry |1 pages

Looting

entry |2 pages

Lund, Sweden

letter |53 pages

M

entry |3 pages

Makers' Marks

entry |1 pages

Manor Houses

entry |2 pages

Maps

entry |2 pages

Maritime Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Maritime Provinces, the, Canada

entry |1 pages

Maroon Sites

entry |1 pages

Marquette Mission, Michigan, USA

entry |2 pages

Martin's Hundred, Virginia, USA

entry |3 pages

Marxian approaches

entry |1 pages

Mary Rose, shipwreck

entry |3 pages

Material Culture

entry |3 pages

Maya archaeology

entry |1 pages

Mean Ceramic Dating

entry |3 pages

Medieval Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Melbourne, Australia

entry |1 pages

Metal Detectors

entry |1 pages

Mexico City, Mexico

entry |5 pages

Middle Colonies, USA

entry |2 pages

Millwood Plantation, South Carolina, USA

entry |3 pages

Mining Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Mission Santa Clara, California, USA

entry |3 pages

Mission Sites

entry |1 pages

Modernity

entry |2 pages

Montarrenti, Italy

entry |1 pages

Monticello, Virginia, USA

entry |1 pages

Moquegua, Peru

entry |1 pages

Mortuary Analysis

entry |1 pages

Mount Vernon, Virginia, USA

entry |3 pages

Museums

letter |23 pages

N

entry |2 pages

Nails

entry |1 pages

Nanny Town, Jamaica

entry |1 pages

Nara, Japan

entry |1 pages

National Historic Landmarks

entry |1 pages

National Register of Historic Places

entry |1 pages

Nationalism

entry |3 pages

Native Americans

entry |1 pages

New Archaeology

entry |3 pages

New England, USA

entry |1 pages

New Technologies

entry |2 pages

New York City

entry |3 pages

New Zealand

entry |1 pages

Newfoundland and Labrador

entry |1 pages

Newton Plantation, Barbados

entry |1 pages

Non-ferrous Metal

entry |3 pages

North Africa

letter |13 pages

O

entry |1 pages

Olive Jar

entry |3 pages

Ontario, Canada

entry |1 pages

Opole, Poland

entry |1 pages

Oral History

entry |2 pages

Ordinary People's Culture

entry |1 pages

Ottoman Empire

entry |1 pages

Oudepost I, South Africa

entry |3 pages

overseas Chinese historical archaeology

letter |50 pages

P

entry |1 pages

Padre Island shipwrecks, Texas, USA

entry |1 pages

Palmares, Brazil

entry |1 pages

Palynology

entry |2 pages

Pattern Recognition

entry |1 pages

Pearlware

entry |2 pages

Peru

entry |1 pages

Pewter

entry |1 pages

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

entry |1 pages

Photographic Information

entry |2 pages

Pictorial Information

entry |1 pages

Pilgrimage Sites

entry |1 pages

Pipe Stem Dating

entry |1 pages

Pipes, Smoking

entry |3 pages

Plantation Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

entry |1 pages

Political Economy

entry |2 pages

Politics in Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Pollen Analysis

entry |1 pages

Popular Culture

entry |2 pages

Porcelain

entry |1 pages

Port Essington, Australia

entry |2 pages

Port Royal, Jamaica

entry |3 pages

Portuguese colonialism

entry |3 pages

Post-Medieval Archaeology

entry |3 pages

Post-Processual Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Pot Hunting

entry |1 pages

Power

entry |1 pages

Prague Castle, Czech Republic

entry |1 pages

Preservation Legislation

entry |1 pages

Probate Inventories

entry |3 pages

Processual Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Prostitution

entry |1 pages

Pseudo-Archaeology

entry |2 pages

Public Archaeology

entry |2 pages

Public Outreach and Education

entry |1 pages

Puerto Real, Haiti

letter |2 pages

Q

entry |1 pages

Qilakitsoq, Greenland (Eskimo mummies)

entry |1 pages

Qsar es-Seghir, Morocco

entry |26 pages

R

entry |2 pages

Race

entry |1 pages

Railways

entry |1 pages

Ravenna, Italy

entry |2 pages

Reconstruction

entry |3 pages

Redware

entry |1 pages

Remote Sensing

entry |1 pages

Renaissance

entry |1 pages

Repatriation

entry |1 pages

Rescue Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Resistance

entry |1 pages

Restoration

entry |1 pages

Richmond Palace, England

entry |1 pages

Rocca San Silvestro, Italy

entry |1 pages

Rocks, The, Australia

entry |4 pages

Rome, Italy

entry |1 pages

Rose Theatre, London

entry |1 pages

Ross Female Factory convict site, Tasmania, Australia

entry |3 pages

Russian colonialism

entry |48 pages

S

entry |2 pages

Sampling

entry |2 pages

San Luis, Florida, USA

entry |1 pages

San Vincenzo, Italy

entry |1 pages

Santa Catalina de Guale, Georgia, USA

entry |1 pages

Santa Elena, South Carolina, USA

entry |2 pages

Settlement Analysis

entry |1 pages

Seville Plantation, Jamaica

entry |1 pages

Ships' Graveyards

entry |2 pages

Shipwrecks

entry |1 pages

Siena, Italy

entry |1 pages

Signal Hill, Newfoundland, Canada

entry |2 pages

Site Significance

entry |3 pages

Slavery

entry |1 pages

Society for Historical Archaeology

entry |1 pages

Society for Post-medieval Archaeology

entry |2 pages

Sociocultural Anthropology

entry |3 pages

South Africa

entry |3 pages

South America

entry |3 pages

South America, underwater archaeology

entry |1 pages

Southwark, London, England

entry |3 pages

Spanish colonialism

entry |1 pages

Spatial Analysis

entry |1 pages

Spitalfields, England

entry |2 pages

St Augustine, Florida, USA

entry |1 pages

St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles

entry |1 pages

St Mary's City, Maryland, USA

entry |1 pages

Stoke-on-Trent, England

entry |2 pages

Stoneware

entry |3 pages

Stratification, Social

entry |1 pages

Stratification, Soil

entry |1 pages

Sugar

entry |1 pages

Surface Collecting

entry |1 pages

Sydney, Australia

letter |8 pages

T

entry |2 pages

Tasmania, Australia

entry |1 pages

Tea/tea Ceremony

entry |1 pages

Teotihuacan, Mexico

entry |1 pages

Terminus Ante Quem

entry |1 pages

Terminus Post Quem

entry |1 pages

Toys

entry |1 pages

Trade

entry |1 pages

Transitional Periods

entry |2 pages

Typologies

letter |12 pages

U

entry |4 pages

Urban Archaeology

entry |3 pages

Urbanisation

entry |1 pages

US Civil War archaeology

entry |3 pages

USA, western

entry |1 pages

Utopian Communities

letter |9 pages

V

entry |2 pages

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, USA

entry |3 pages

Vernacular Architecture

entry |1 pages

Vikings

entry |3 pages

VOC shipwrecks

letter |19 pages

W

entry |3 pages

Wales

entry |1 pages

Wapping, England

entry |2 pages

West Africa

entry |1 pages

Whaling

entry |1 pages

Wharram Percy, England

entry |1 pages

Windmills

entry |1 pages

Witte Leeuw, shipwreck

entry |2 pages

Women in Historical Archaeology

entry |1 pages

World Archaeological Congress

entry |1 pages

World(-)systems Theory

entry |1 pages

Worthy Park, Jamaica

entry |3 pages

Writing

entry |1 pages

Wybalenna, Tasmania, Australia

letter |2 pages

Z

entry |2 pages

Zooarchaeology