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This book explores how European forts were adapted for the special needs of the North American frontier. By exploring the unique forts along the borderlands, this book reveals much about the underlying economies and dynamics of the broader conflict that defined a critical period of the American experience.

"The Archaeology of Roman Portugal contributes to the wider debate on Roman imperialism and expansionism, by bringing to the fore a much-underrepresented area of the Roman empire, at least in English-language scholarship: its westernmost edge in modern day Portugal. Highlighting the perspective from Roman Portugal contributes to our understanding of the Roman empire, through presenting both an extraordinary landscape in the sense of economic opportunities (ocean resources, marble and metal mining), and also settlement history. The volume presents new data and insights from both archaeology and ancient history, discussing their significance for our understanding of Roman expansion and imperialism. A key goal of the volume is to discuss how the Portuguese panorama compares to other areas of the Iberian peninsula, and to better integrate Portuguese scholarship in the academic debate on the Mediterranean Roman world, and to contextualise it firmly within the wider Iberian and Western Mediterranean. The volume brings together an internationally diverse team of scholars in archaeology and ancient history from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. It explicitly discusses different national and disciplinary research traditions and historical frameworks in order to assess the potential of integrating best practices in archaeological approaches and methodology"--

This book offers a new perspective on the ancient Maya that emphasizes the importance of dwelling as a social practice. Using excavations of ancient Chunchucmil as a case study, it investigates how Maya personhood was structured and transformed in and beyond the domestic sphere and examines the role of the past in the production of contemporary Maya identity

"This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. Drawing on a range of social theorists, Hastorf provides a theoretical toolkit essential for any archaeologist interested in foodways. Studying the social life of food, this book engages with taste, practice, the meal and the body to discuss power, identity, gender and meaning that creates our world as it created past societies"--Bookdepository.com

Cover -- Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Household, Village, and Landscape: The Built Environments of Slavery in the Caribbean -- 2. An Examination of Housing for Enslaved and Free Blacks on Sugar and Cotton Plantations on the Southeast Peninsula of St. Kitts -- 3. The Present Past: The Design Legacy of Laborers' Housing in the Landscape of Vernacular Architecture on Nevis -- 4. Building a Better Village? Transformations in French West Indian Slave Village Architecture from the Ancien Régime to Emancipation -- 5. Asymmetric Architectures of Enslaved People in Jamaica: An Archaeological Study of Household Variation at Good Hope Estate -- 6. Variation within the Village: Housing Enslaved Laborers on Coffee Plantations in Jamaica -- 7. Humanitarian Reform, Model Cottages, and the Habitational Landscape of Slavery on a Bahama Island -- 8. Landscape and Labor on the Periphery: Built Environments of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century French Guiana -- 9. Royal Enslaved Afro-Caribbeans in Christiansted: Exploring the Archaeology of Enslavement in a Caribbean City -- 10. Households and Dwelling Practices at the Cabrits Garrison Laborer Village -- 11. Built Environments: Slavery, Materiality, and Usable Pasts -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index.

The case for the archaeological exploration of the early sugar industry in western Asia and the Mediterranean -- Sugar : origins and general processes -- The archaeology of sugar production from western Asia to Iberia : sites and vessels -- The geoarchaeology and archaeology of the Ghor as-Safi, Jordan -- The excavations at Tawahin es-Sukkar and Khirbet Shaykh 'Isa -- The ceramics from Tawahin es-Sukkar and Khirbet Shaykh 'Isa -- Other material finds from Tawahin es-Sukkar and Khirbet Shaykh 'Isa -- Organic finds from Tawahin es-Sukkar and Khirbet Shaykh 'Isa.

This book evaluates current archaeological excavation methods and recording systems in relation to their use in providing forensic evidence, and their ability to satisfy the admissibility tests introduced by the Law Commission, and other internationally recognised bodies.

The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind - the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards - this book tells their stories

The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind - the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards - this book tells their stories.

Preliminary Material /Tony Pollard -- A Detailed Study Of The Effectiveness And Capabilities Of 18th Century Musketry On The Battlefield /N A Roberts , J W Brown , B Hammett and P D F Kingston -- An Archaeological Study Of Talamanca Battlefield /Xavier Rubio Campillo -- Remembering The Charge Of The Light Brigade: Its Commemoration, War Memorials And Memory /Gavin Hughes and Jonathan Trigg -- Fortified Homesteads: The Architecture Of Fear In Frontier South Australia And The Northern Territory, Ca. 1847-1885 /Nicolas K Grguric -- Landscapes Of The Battle Of The Bulge: Ww2 Field Fortifications In The Ardennes Forests Of Belgium /David G Passmore and Stephan Harrison -- Archaeological Investigation Of Military Sites On Inchkeith Island /Tony Pollard and Iain Banks -- War And Place: Landscapes Of Conflict And Destruction In Prehistory /James E Snead -- The Archaeology Of The Siege Of Leith, 1560 /Tony Pollard -- The Archaeology Of The Siege Of Fort William, 1746 /Tony Pollard -- Between Memory And Materiality: An Archaeological Approach To Studying The Nazi Concentration Camps /Adrian T Myers -- Book Review The Deadly Politics Of Giving: Exchange And Violence At Ajacan, Roanoke, And Jamestown, /Seth Mallios -- Index /Tony Pollard.