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Suggested reading

American Association for State and Local History
1968     Technical Brief # 48: Nail Chronology as an Aid to Dating Old Buildings. American Association for State and Local History, Nashville.

Apuzzo, Robert
1994     Bottles of Old New York: A Pictorial Guide to Early New York City Bottles 1680-1925. R&L Publishers.

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

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

Fagan, Brian M.
1998     People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory, Ninth Edition. Longman, New York.

Gibson, Alex M. and Ann Woods
1997     Prehistoric Pottery for the Archaeologist. Pinter Publishing, Ltd.

Godden, Geoffrey A.
1999     New Handbook of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks. Trafalgar Square, London.

Hodges, Henry
1988     Artifacts: An Introduction to Early Materials and Technology. Ronald P. Frye & Co.

Justice, Noel D.
1995     Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States : A Modern Survey and Reference. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Kooyman, Brian P.
2000     Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Luedtke, Barbara E.
1992     An Archaeologist's Guide to Chert and Flint, Archaeological Research Tools, No 7. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

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

McMillon, Bill
1991     The Archaeology Handbook: A Field Manual and Resource Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.

Noël Hume, Ivor
1970     A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

Odell, George H.
1996     Stone Tools: Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory. Plenum Press, New York.

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

Patten, Bob
1995     Old Tools-New Eyes: A Primal Primer of Flintknapping. Stone Dagger Publications, Denver.

Rice, Prudence M.
1987     Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Whittaker, John C.
1994     Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools. University of Texas Press, Austin.

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 Publishing Company, Mountain View, CA.

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

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

McMillon, Bill
1991     The Archaeology Handbook: A Field Manual and Resource Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.

Noël Hume, Ivor
1970     A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

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

 

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