Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology
Historical archaeology has made great strides during the last two decades. Early archaeological reports were dominated by descriptions of features and artifacts, while research on artifacts was concentrated on studies of topology, technology, and chronology. Site reports from the 1960s and 1970s com...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1: Introduction
- I: Eighteenth- through Early Nineteenth-Century Commercial Agricultural Economy
- 2: Ceramics as Indicators of Status and Class in Eighteenth-Century New York
- 3: Consumer Choices in White Ceramics: A Comparison of Eleven Early Nineteenth-Century Sites
- 4: Threshold of Affordability: Assessing Fish Remains for Socioeconomics
- 5: Vertebrate Fauna and Socioeconomic Status
- 6: Plantation Status and Consumer Choice: A Materialist Framework for Historical Archaeology
- II: Mid-Nineteenth Century Commerce and Industrialization
- 7: Socioeconomic Variation in a Late Antebellum Southern Town: The View from Archaeological and Documentary Sources
- 8: Status Variation in Antebellum Alexandria: An Archaeological Study of Ceramic Tableware
- 9: Status Indicators: Another Strategy for Interpretation of Settlement Pattern in a Nineteenth-Century Industrial Village
- 10: The Use of Converging Lines of Evidence for Determining Socioeconomic Status
- 11: Nineteenth-Century Households and Consumer Behavior in Wilmington, Delaware
- 12: Adapting to Factory and City: Illustrations from the Industrialization and Urbanization of Paterson, New Jersey
- III: Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Urban Sites
- 13: Working-Class Detroit: Late Victorian Consumer Choices and Status
- 14: Miller’s Indices and Consumer-Choice Profiles: Status-Related Behaviors and White Ceramics
- 15: Factors Influencing Consumer Behavior in Turn-of-the-Century Phoenix, Arizona
- 16: Gravestones: Reflectors of Ethnicity or Class?
- IV: Epilogue: Middle-Range Theory in Historical Archaeology