Contents

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Imaginary, But by No Means Unimaginable: Storytelling, Science, and Historical Archaeology JAMES G. GIBB

Imagination and Archaeological Interpretations: A Methodological Tale KENNETH E. LEWIS

Compelling Images Through Storytelling: Comment on “Imaginary, But by No Means Unimaginable: Storytelling, Science, and Historical Archaeology”

BARBARA J. LITTLE

Scientific Creativity and Creative Science: Looking at the Future of Archaeological Storytelling.

LARRY MCKEE AND JILLIAN GALLE

“We Are All Storytellers”: Comments on Storytelling, Science, and Historical Archaeology TERESITA MAJEWSKI

Reflection, Not Truth, the Hero of My Tale: Responding to Lewis, Little, Majewski, and McKee and Galle JAMES G. GIBB

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The Historic and Paleoclimatic Significance of Log Buildings in Southcentral Texas MATTHEW D. THERRELL

“The little Spots allow’d them”: The Archaeological Study of African-American Yards BARBARA J. HEATH AND AMBER BENNETT

Lash’s: A Bitter Medicine: Biochemical Analysis of an Historical Proprietary Medicine MICHAEL TORBENSON, ROBERT H KELLY, JONATHON ERLEN, LORNA CROPCHO, MICHAEL MORACA, BONNIE BEILER, K. N. RAO, AND MOHAMED VIRJI

There’s Gold in Them Thar--Documents? The Demographic Evolution of Nevada’s Comstock, 1860 through 1910, and the Intersection of Census Demography and Historical Archaeology

KENNETH II. FLIESS

Magnetometer Prospecting in Historical Archaeology: Evaluating Survey Options at a 19th-Century Rancho Site in California

STEPHEN W. SILLIMAN, PAUL FARNSWORTH, AND KENT G. LIGHTFOOT

REVIEWS

EDITED BY VERGIL E. NOBLE

Tarlow and West: The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain. MARK P. LEONE

Mullins Race and Affluence: An Archaeology of African-American and Consumer Culture. PEDRO PAULO A. FUNARI

Andren: Between Artifacts and Texts: Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective MARK WARNER

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Delle: An Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains. LAURIE A. WILKIE

Turgeon, Delage, and Ouellet: Transferts culturels et metissages Amerique/Europe XVIe-XXe siecle--Cultural Transfer, America and Europe: 500 Years of Interculturation.

PIERRE DROUIN

Martin and Garrison: American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field MARY C. BEAUDRY

Milanich: Laboring in the Fields of the Lord Spanish Missions and southeastern Indians. JOHN WORTH

Kingery: Learning from Things: Method and Theory in Material Culture Studies JILLIAN GALLE

Palmer and Neaverson: Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice. DAVID B. LANDON

King: Cultural Resource Laws and Practice: An Introductory Guide. HESTER A. DAVIS

Blakely and Harrington: Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training.

ASHLEY H. MCKEOWN

Flint and Flint: The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva: The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest.

TIMOTHY K. PERTTULA

Jensen: The Fontenelle and Cabanne Trading Posts: The History and Archaeology of Two Missouri River Sites, 1822-1838.

LYLE M. STONE

James and Raymond: Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community. LEAH K. EVANS-JANKE

Mott: The Development of the Rudder: A Technological Tale. JACK B. IRION

Green, Standbury, and Gaastra: The ANCODS Colloquium: Papers Presented at the Australia-Netherlands Colloquium on Maritime Archaeology and Maritime History.

MARGARET E. LESHIKAR-DENTON

Fox, Renner, and Hard: Archaeology at the Alamodome: Investigations of a San Antonio Neighborhood in Transition (3 Vols.).

TIMOTHY E. BAUMANN

Tice: Uniform Buttons of the United States, 1776-1865. CHARLES S. BRADLEY

Staniforth and Nash: Chinese Export Porcelain from the Wreck of the Sydney Cove (1797). PRISCILLA WEGARS

Jester: Twentieth Century Building Materials: History and Conservation. MICHAEL R. POLK

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Gums, Mounce, and Mansberger: The Kirkpatricks’ Potteries in Illinois: A Family Tradition. LINDA F. CARNES-MCNAUGHTON

Bound: Excavating Ships of War. MARK J. STANIFORTH

Crisman and Cohn: When Horses Walked on Water: Horse Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America ANNALIES CORBIN

Starbuck: The Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point STANLEY SOUTH

Peterson, Mbutu, and Willis: The Union Plaza Downtown El Paso Development Archaeological Project: Overview, Inventory and Recommendations.

EDWARD STASKI

Lightfoot, Schiff, and Wake: The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California, Vol. 2, The Native Alaskan Neighborhood: A Multiethnic Community at Colony Ross.

THAD M. VAN BUEREN

Nassaney: Historical Archaeology in Battle Creek, Michigan: The 1996 Field Season at the Warren B. Shepard Site (20CA104).

SUSAN R. SNOW

Nassaney: An Intensive Archaeological Survey of the James and Ellen G. White House Site (20CA118), Battle Creek, Michigan.

SUSAN R. SNOW

Gums: The Archaeology of an African-American Neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. PAUL R. MULLINS

Stothers, Tucker, and Koralewski: The Dunlap Farmstead: Historical Archaeology at 33W041, the 19th Century Homestead of Revolutionary War Soldier Robert Dunlap and Family, Middleton Township, Wood County, Ohio.

MITZI ROSSILLON

Reno: The Charcoal Industry in the Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada: Final Report of the Mitigation of Adverse Effects to Significant Cultural Properties from Atlas Precious Metals’ Gold Bar II Mine Project.

TIM TUMBERG

Hann and McEwan: The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis. JOHN H. JAMESON, JR.

Gartley and Carskadden: Colonial Period and Early 19th-Century Children’s Toy Marbles: History and Identifications for the Archaeologist and Collector.

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Historical Archaeology Volume 34, Number

Journal of the Society for Historica

2 2000

Archaeology

RONALD L. MICHAEL, Editor

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