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• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Traveling into Nevada's Mining Past
• Chapter 3. The Archaeology of Mining Technology
• Chapter 4. The Social Archaeology of Mining
• Chapter 5. Conclusions: Understanding Variability and Change on the Mining FrontierReferences CitedIndex.
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Mining played a prominent role in the shaping and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Following the discovery of the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology, society, and culture throughout the world. In the wake of these changes Nevada became an important mining region, with new people and technologies further altering the ways mining was pursued and miners interacted. Historical archaeology offers a research strategy for understanding mining and miners that integrates three independent sources of information about the past: physical remains, documents, and oral testimony. Mining Archaeology in the American West explores mining culture and practices through the microcosm of Nevada's mining frontier. The history of mining technology, the social and cultural history of miners and mining societies, and the landscapes and environments of mining are topics examined in this multifocus research. In this updated and expanded edition of the seminal work on mining in Nevada, Donald Hardesty brings scholarship up to the present with important new research and insights into how people, technology, culture, architecture, and landscape changed during this period of mining history.
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• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Traveling into Nevada's Mining Past
• Chapter 3. The Archaeology of Mining Technology
• Chapter 4. The Social Archaeology of Mining
• Chapter 5. Conclusions: Understanding Variability and Change on the Mining FrontierReferences CitedIndex.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Mining played a prominent role in the shaping and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Following the discovery of the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology, society, and culture throughout the world. In the wake of these changes Nevada became an important mining region, with new people and technologies further altering the ways mining was pursued and miners interacted. Historical archaeology offers a research strategy for understanding mining and miners that integrates three independent sources of information about the past: physical remains, documents, and oral testimony. Mining Archaeology in the American West explores mining culture and practices through the microcosm of Nevada's mining frontier. The history of mining technology, the social and cultural history of miners and mining societies, and the landscapes and environments of mining are topics examined in this multifocus research. In this updated and expanded edition of the seminal work on mining in Nevada, Donald Hardesty brings scholarship up to the present with important new research and insights into how people, technology, culture, architecture, and landscape changed during this period of mining history.
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• List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements
• Introduction Twenty-one bits of glass, historical archaeology, and the meaning of the West
• Chapter 1 Gold and silver!
• Chapter 2 A crowded city on the mining frontier
• Chapter 3 An Irish blacksmith and the archaeology of belief
• Chapter 4 The Chinese
• Chapter 5 Saloons and the archaeology of leisure
• Chapter 6 Women on the mining frontier
• Chapter 7 Kids on the Comstock
• Chapter 8 Piper's Opera House and the archaeology of theater
• Chapter 9 Death and the material culture of the final chapter
• Epilogue Breathing meaning into the past
• Notes
• Bibliography Index.
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Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown microcosm of the American West. Drawing on the work of hundreds of volunteers, students, and professional archaeologists, Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past shows how every detail-from unearthed artifacts to reports of local saloons to plans for the cemetery to surviving nineteenth-century buildings-adds to our view of Virginia City when it was one of the richest places on earth. James recreates this unlikely epitome of frontier industry and cosmopolitan living, the thriving hub of corporate executives, middle-class families, miners, prostitutes, and barkeepers-and more foreign-born residents per capita than anywhere else in the country-in a spot that had begun its life a few years earlier as the mining camp of several lucky guys. An excavation of the history of Virginia City, a window on the heyday of the American frontier, James's book is also an enlightening look at how archaeology brings the story of the past to life.
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• Introduction: Colonialism and decline in eighteenth-century Iroquois studies
• Local political economy
• Toward a history of the Seneca homeland, 1677-1754
• New Ganechstage in the library, museum, and archive
• Archaeology at the Townley-Read Site, 1996-2000
• Seneca settlement pattern and community structure, 1677-1779
• The logic of dispersed settlement
• Iroquois housing, 1677-1754 : terminology and definitions
• Iroquois housing, 1677-1754 : archaeological and documentary evidence
• Archaeology and Townley-Read's economy : faunal remains, red stone, and alcohol bottles
• Turning points in Iroquois history : a re-evaluation
• Conclusion: Archaeology and the Seneca restoration.

The Iroquois nation, one of the most impressive Native American communities encountered by early European settlers, is commonly perceived as having plunged into a steep decline in the late seventeenth century due to colonial encroachment into the Great Lakes region. Kurt Jordan challenges long-standing interpretations that depict the Iroquois as defeated, colonized peoples by demonstrating that an important tribe of that confederacy, the Senecas, maintained an impressive political and economic autonomy and resisted colonialism with a high degree of success.By combining archaeological data grounded in the material culture of the Seneca Townley-Read site with historical documents, Jordan answers larger questions about the Seneca's sustainability and durability in an era of intense colonial pressures. He offers a detailed reconstruction of daily life in the Seneca community and demonstrates that they were extremely selective about which aspects of European material culture, plant and animal species, and lifeways they allowed into their territory, even as the eastern Mohawk Iroquois populations were truly colonized.
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• Archaeology and Social Justice
• Violence, Peace, and Social Justice as Positive Peace
• Cultural Domain of Power
• Direct Interpersonal Domain of Power
• Structural and Disciplinary Domain of Power
• Climate Justice
• Reality, Hope, Imagination.

"In this time of Black Lives Matter, the demands of NAGPRA, and climate crises, the field of American archaeology needs a radical transformation. It has been largely a white, male, privileged domain that replicates an entrenched patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist system. In this book, Barbara J. Little explores the concepts and actions required for such a change, looking to peace studies, anthropology, sociology, social justice activism, and more for helpful approaches and in keeping with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She introduces an effective model that uses the strengths of archaeology. As Little explains, the Diachronic Transformational Action model and the "peace/violence triad" of interconnected personal, cultural, and structural domains of power can help disrupt the injustice of all forms of violence. "Diachronic" connects the past to present to understand how power worked in the past and works now. "Transformational" influences power now by distrusting the stability of the violence triad. "Action" refers to collaborative work to diagnose power relations and transform toward social justice. In this framework, coverage includes confronting the country's founding and myth of liberty and justice for all and the American Dream. It also examines white racism, privilege, and hierarchy and generational trauma. Archaeological case studies enlighten violent direct actions against women, Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and Japanese Americans. Archaeologies of poverty, precarity, and labor are used to show how archaeologists have documented and helped to address these injustices. Finally, Little showcases insights that archaeology can bring to bear on the climate crisis and how lessons from the past can inform direct actions today. Overall, white archaeologists are asked to do the work necessary for social justice"-- Provided by publisher.
"In this time of Black Lives Matter, the demands of NAGPRA, and climate crises, the field of American archaeology needs a radical transformation. It has been largely a white, male, privileged domain that replicates an entrenched patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist system. In Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice, Barbara J. Little explores the concepts and actions required for such a change, looking to peace studies, anthropology, sociology, social justice activism, and the achievements of community-based archaeology for helpful approaches in keeping with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She introduces an analytic model that uses the strengths of archaeology to destabilize violence and build peace. As Little explains, the Diachronic Transformational Action model and the peace/violence triad of interconnected personal, cultural, and structural domains of power can help disrupt the injustice of all forms of violence. Diachronic connects the past to the present to understand how power worked in the past and works now. Transformational influences power now by disrupting the stability of the violence triad. Action refers to collaborative work to diagnose power relations and transform toward social justice. Using this framework, Little confronts the country's founding and myth of liberty and justice for all, as well as the American Dream. She also examines whiteness, antiracism, privilege, and intergenerational trauma, and offers white archaeologists concepts to grapple with their own racialized identities and to consider how to relinquish white supremacy. Archaeological case studies examine cultural violence and violent direct actions against women, Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and Japanese Americans, while archaeologies of poverty, precarity, and labor are used to show how archaeologists have helped expose the roots of these injustices. Because climate justice is integral to social justice, Little showcases insights that archaeology can bring to bear on the climate crisis and how lessons from the past can inform direct actions today. Finally, Little invites archaeologists to embrace inquiry and imagination so that they can both imagine and achieve the positive peace of social justice."-- Provided by publisher.

• The Great Dismal Swamp landscape, then and now
• Alienation: a foundational concept
• The architecture of alienation in modern history
• The documented Great Dismal Swamp, 1585-1860
• Scission communities, canal company laborer communities, and interpretations of their archaeological
• Presence in the Great Dismal Swamp
• Two hundred and fifty years of community praxis in the Great Dismal Swamp: some concluding thoughts.

In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape-2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped. In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area's archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism. Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology.
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• The Great Dismal Swamp landscape, then and now
• Alienation: a foundational concept
• The architecture of alienation in modern history
• The documented Great Dismal Swamp, 1585-1860
• Scission communities, canal company laborer communities, and interpretations of their archaeological
• Presence in the Great Dismal Swamp
• Two hundred and fifty years of community praxis in the Great Dismal Swamp: some concluding thoughts.

In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape-2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped. In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area's archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism. Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology.
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• List of illustrations Acknowledgments and contributors by Catherine Holder Spude Part I. Rediscovering Eldorado: an introduction to this volume by Catherine Holder Spude and Robin O. Mills 1. An Overview History of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rushes, 1880-1918 by Robert L. Spude
• 2. Theoretical Perspectives on the Frontier Mining Pattern by Donald L. Hardesty
• 3. A Proposed Model for a Placer Gold Mining Settlement System by Robin O. Mills
• 4. Predicting Social and Economic Function at Residential and Commercial Site Types in the Far North, 1880-1920 by Catherine Holder Spude
• 5. New Perspectives from the North: Comparative Opportunities and Challenges in an Archaeology of Eldorado by Margaret Purser Part II. Intermediate Coastal Transfer and Supply Settlements: Supplying the Upper Yukon through Skagway and Dyea by Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude 6. Already Here and Rich: A Brief Ethnohistory of Upper Lynn Canal by Thomas F. Thornton
• 7. Tobacco Pipes, Medicinals, and Decorated Dishes: The Archaeology of Gender and Economic Class in Households from Skagway, Alaska by Doreen C. Cooper and Catherine Holder Spude
• 8. Faunal Remains in Skagway, Alaska: Gold Rush to Working Class by David R. Huelsbeck Part III. Getting around the Landscape: Links in the Interior Transportation System by Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude 9. An Overview of Chilkoot Trail Archaeology by Eve Griffin and Karl Gurcke
• 10. Canyon City: The Archaeology of a Company Town on the Transportation Network to the Klondike by T. J. Hammer Part IV. Central and Secondary Distribution Settlements: Supplying the Mining Districts by Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude 11. Explaining Variability in Northern Gold Mining Saloons by Catherine Holder Spude, Robert M. Weaver, and Tim A. Kardatzke
• 12. Living at the Edge of a Boomtown: Transient Life in Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush by Michael Brand
• 13. Boom through Bust and Beyond: Changing Settlement System Functions at Coldfoot, a Placer Mining Town in Alaska by Robin O. Mills
• 14. Alder Smoke and Shoe Nails: Life in an Early-20th Century Mining Camp by Howard L. Smith, Robin O. Mills, and Catherine Holder Spude Part V. Extracting the Wealth: Sites on the Gold Creeks by Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude 15. Living the Solitary Life: Placer Mining Camps in Alaska, 1900-1950 by Becky M. Saleeby
• 16. Alaska Natives in the Gold Rush: A Look at Valdez Creek in the Early to Mid-20th Century by Robert E. King
• 17. Cabin Comforts: The Archaeology of Bachelor Cabins on Fish Creek, Alaska by Andrew S. Higgs and Robert A. Sattler References Cited
• Index.
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When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfil those needs. In this volume, archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon. The authors explore various parts of this extensive settlement and supply system: coastal towns that funnelled goods inland from ships; the famous Chilkoot Trail, over which tens of thousands of gold-seekers trod; a host of retail-oriented sites that supported prospectors and transferred goods through the system; and actual camps on the creeks where gold was extracted from the ground. Discussing individual cases in terms of settlement patterns and archaeological assemblages, the essays shed light on issues of interest to students of gender, transience, and site abandonment behaviour. Further commentary places the archaeology of the Far North within the larger context of early twentieth-century industrialized European American society.
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Leading readers to archaeological sites from Canada to the Caribbean and through time from the early Norse voyages to World War II, this book describes compelling discoveries unearthed by archaeologists in search of North America's historical past. Through the work of more than 30 archaeological teams, readers learn about the rich diversity of historical archaeology, exploring the who, what, where, when, how, and why of the discipline. Written for a popular audience and for practitioners of historical archaeology, the tales in Unlocking the Past are organized into five themes. "Cultures in Contact" unravels the contributions of architecture, landscape, food, dining, burial practices, and other factors to our understanding of everyday life in the past. "Challenging and Changing Environments" highlights the techniques, resources, and questions that historical archaeologists use to understand the roots of ways of thinking about and acting on the land. Through burial remains left beneath streets and tall buildings, "Building Cities" portrays urban life in large cities like New York, World Heritage cities like Quebec, and industrial cities like Oakland, California. "Making a Living in Rural America" explores the rural tradition in North American history as archaeologists "read" the traces of ancient farms, ranches, potteries, and mills. "Cultures in Conflict" introduces the archaeology of colonial wars, the U.S. Civil War, the epic Battle of Little Bighorn, and World War II.
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