NPS Archeology Program: Archeology for Interpreters

Suggested readings

General

Ashmore, Wendy and Robert J. Sharer
1996 Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology. Second Edition. Mayfield Pub. Co., Mountain View, CA.

Deetz, James
1996 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. Revised Edition. Doubleday, New York.

Ellis, Linda (editor)
2000 Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.

Jameson, John H. (editor)
1997 Presenting Archeology to the Public: Digging for Truths. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

Kryston, Cynthia
1996 The Interpretive Journey. Curriculum essay.

Lewis, William
1989 Interpreting for Park Visitors. Acorn Press.

Smith, Shelley J., Jeanne M. Moe, Kelly A. Letts and Danielle M. Patterson
n.d. Intrigue of the Past: A Teacher's Activity Guide for Fourth through Seventh Grades. United States Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management.

Thomas, David Hurst
1998 Archaeology. Third Edition. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Fort Worth, TX.

White, Nancy Marie
2000 Teaching Archaeologists to Teach Archaeology. In The Archaeology Education Handbook: Sharing the Past with Kids. edited by Karolyn Smardz and Shelley J. Smith, pp. 328-339. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

Also see the Systemwide Archeological Inventory Program (SAIP) for your region.

Interactions with the environment

Crumley, Carole L.
1994 Historical Ecology: Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscape. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

Reitz, Elizabeth J., Lee A. Newsom, and Sylvia J. Scudder (editors)
1996 Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Plenum Pub. Corp., New York.

Zooarcheology

Davis, Simon J. M.
1995 The Archaeology of Animals. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Rackham, D. James
1994 Animal Bones (Interpreting the Past). University of California Press, Berkeley,

Hesse, Brian, Paula Warnish, and Paula Wapnish
1985 Animal Bone Archaeology: From Objectives to Analysis, Manuals on Archaeology, 5. Taraxacum.

Lyman, R. Lee and Cma Leman
1994 Vertebrate Taphonomy, Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Reitz, Elizabeth J. and Elizabeth S. Wing
1999 Zooarchaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Paleobotany

Faegri, Knut, Johs Iversen, Peter Emil Kaland and Knut Krzywinski.
2000 Textbook of Pollen Analysis. The Blackburn Press, Caldwell.

Gremillion, Kristen J. (editor)
1997 People, Plants, and Landscapes: Studies in Paleoethnobotany. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Henry Nathaniel, Andrews
1980 The Fossil Hunters: In Search of Ancient Plants. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Pearsall, Deborah M.
2000 Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures, Second Edition. Academic Press, San Diego.

Piperno, Dolores R.
1988 Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Perspective. Academic Press, San Diego.

Rapp, G. and S. C. Mulholland (editors)
1992 Phytolith Systematics: Emerging Issues, Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science, Vol 1. Plenum Pub. Corp., New York.

Stewart, W. N. and G. W. Rothwell
1993 Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Soil analysis

Hester, Thomas, Harry J. Shafer, and Kenneth L. Feder
1997 Field Methods in Archaeology, Seventh Edition. Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, CA.

Holliday, Vance T. (editor)
1993 Soils in Archaeology: Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Geomorphology

Herz, N., and E. G. Garrison
1994 Geological Methods for Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Rapp, Jr., G., and J. A. Gifford, editors
1985 Archaeological Geology. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Rapp, George, Jr. and Christopher L. Hill
1998 Geoarchaeology: The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation. Yale University Press: New Haven.

History of American archeology

Ellis, Linda (editor)
2000 Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.

Orser, Charles E., Jr. and Brian M. Fagan
1995 Historical Archaeology. Harper Collins College Publishers, New York.

Patterson, Thomas C.
1994 Toward a Social History of Archaeology in the United States. Harcourt Brace Publishers, Fort Worth, Texas.

Trigger, Bruce
1990 A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge University Press.

Willey, Gordon Randolph and Jeremy A. Sabloff
1995 A History of American Archaeology. W. H. Freeman & Co.

References
Sections of this chapter were taken from:

Ashmore, Wendy and Robert J. Sharer
1996 Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology. Second Edition. Mayfield Pub. Co., Mountain View, CA.

Childs, S. Terry and Eileen Corcoran
2000 Managing Archeological Collections-Technical Assistance. Archeology Program, National Park Service.

Deetz, James
1996 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. Revised Edition. Doubleday, New York.

Hester, Thomas R., Harry J. Shaer and Kenneth L. Feder
1997 Field Methods in Archaeology. Seventh Edition. Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, CA.

Little, Barbara J.
1998 Considering the Context of Historical Archaeology for Museum Interpretation. In The Public Historian, Vol. 20, No. 4 pp. 111-117.

McIntosh, Jane
1999 The Practical Archaeologist: How We Know What We Know About the Past, Second Edition. Checkmark Books, New York.

National Park Service
1997a Cultural Resources Management Guide, Release No. 5. National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

1997b Module 101: Fulfilling the NPS Mission: The Process of Interpretation.National Park Service, Washington D.C.

Stuart, George E. and Frank P. McManamon
1998 Archeology & You. The U.S. Department of the Interior, the National Geographic Society, and the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

Thomas, David Hurst
1998 Archaeology. Third Edition. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Fort Worth, TX.

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