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Shovel ready : archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America /

This book provides a lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology. In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, the editor and the contributors deliver a valuable research tool for practicing archaeologists and historians o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Means, Bernard K. (Bernard Klaus), 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "alphabet soup" and American archaeology / Bernard K. Means
  • The first stimulus package : the WPA and the New Jersey Indian Site Survey / Gregory D. Lattanzi
  • Historical archaeology's "New Deal" in Pennsylvania / Janet R. Johnson
  • Archaeologist #.00000000000000000 : Edgar E. Augustine and New Deal excavations in Somerset County, Pennsylvania / Bernard K. Means
  • The Great Depression begets a great expansion : field museum anthropology, 1929-1941 / Stephen E. Nash
  • Project 1047 : New Deal archaeology in Iowa / John F. Doershuk and John L. Cordell
  • The last of WPA archaeology in Oklahoma : the Clement and McDonald sites / Amanda L. Regnier, Patrick C. Livingood, and Scott W. Hammerstedt
  • Trouble in the glen : the battle over Kentucky Lake archaeology / David H. Dye
  • WPA archaeology at the Slayden Site, Humphreys County, Tennessee / Anna R. Lunn
  • Culture, time, and practice : the shifting interpretive potential of New Deal-era collections / Sissel Schroeder
  • New Deal archaeology in west-central Kentucky : excavations at Annis Village / Scott W. Hammerstedt
  • Preston Holder's WPA excavations in Glynn and Chatham Counties, Georgia, 1936-1938 / Kevin Kiernan
  • The Resettlement Administration and the historical archaeology of the Georgia Piedmont / James R. Wettstaed
  • Conclusion : shovels at the ready : work relief and American archaeology, today and tomorrow / Bernard K. Means.