Readings for each day are listed with that day's topic. Outlines of the ** readings are due in class that day.

Week 1
Monday May 15
Welcome/Logistics
Site History/Fieldwork History

Wednesday May 17
Field Duties/Rotation
How to Use a Transit
How to Begin a Project/Excavation Procedures/Horizontal and Vertical Control
Sutton, Mark and Arkush, Brooke
199? 1 Introduction
2 The Archaeological Project
3 The Archaeological Catalogue
14 Archaeological Illustration
Anthony, Ronald
** 1993 Preliminary Report: Archaeological Investigations at Stono Plantation. Ms. on file, The Charleston Museum.

Calhoun, Jeanne
** 1986 A Historical Overview of Charleston and the Lowcountry. Ms. on file, The Charleston Museum, Charleston.
** 1986 Stono Plantation: A Preliminary Historical Report. Ms. on file, The Charleston Museum, Charleston.

Week 2
Monday May 22
Ceramics
Anthony, Ronald
** 1986 Colono Wares. In Home Upriver: Rural Life on Daniels Island, edited by Martha Zierden, Lesley Drucker and Jeanne Calhoun, pp722-7/51. Report on file, SC Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Columbia.

Hume, Noel
1969 Excerpts on ceramics

Wednesday May 24
Ceramics
Sutton, Mark and Arkush, Brooke
199? Analysis of Aboriginal Ceramics

Week 3
Monday May 29 Memorial Day Off

Wednesday May 31
Features and Zones / Stratigraphy and TPQ
Carson, Cary, Norman Barka, William Kelso, Garry Stone, and Dell Upton
** 1988 Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies. In Material Life in America, 1600-1860, edited by Robert Blair St. George, pp. 113-158, Northeastern University Press, Boston.

Week 4
Monday June 5
Other material culture
Sutton, Mark and Arkush, Brooke
199? Analysis of Historical Artifacts

Hume, Noel
1969 Excerpts not ceramics

Lorrain, Dessamae
1968 An Archaeologist's Guide to Nineteenth Century American Glass. Historical Archaeology 2: 35-44

Wednesday June 7
Plantation Archeaology /African-American studies
Cooper, Margaret and Carl Steen
** 1998 Potters of the South Carolina Lowcountry: A Material Culture Study of Creolization. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Atlanta.

Singleton, Theresa
** 1990 The Archaeology of the Plantation South: A Review of Approaches and Goals. Historical Archaeology 24(4): 70-77.

Week 5
Monday June 12

****CERAMICS QUIZ****

HAND OUT INTERPRETIVE EXERCISE

TPQ (review)
Schiffer's Transforms
Schiffer, Michael B
** 1977 Toward a Unified Science of the Cultural Past. In Research Strategies in Historical Archaeology, edited by Stanley South, pp. 13-40, Academic Press, New York.

Wednesday June 14
Plowzone studies
Riordan, Timothy
** 1988 The Interpretation of 17th Century Sites through Plow Zone Surface Collections: Examples from St. Marys City, Maryland. Historical Archaeology 22(2): 3-16.

Zierden, Martha
** 1996 The Urban Landscape, the Work Yard, and Archaeological Site Formation Processes in Charleston, South Carolina. In Historical Archaeology and the Study of American Culture, edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and Bernard Herman, pp. 285-318, Winterthur Museum Publications, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Week 6
Monday June 19

MONDAY JUNE 19 FIELD TRIP

Mean Ceramic Date/Pipestem dating
Binford, Lewis
** 1961 A New Method for Calculating Dates from Kaolin Pipe Stem Samples. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Newsletter 9(1): 19-21.

South's Patterns
South, Stanley
** 1977 The Carolina Artifact Pattern (Chapter 4). In Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology by Stanley South, Academic Press, New York.

Wednesday June 21
Charleston Studies
Zierden, Martha
** 1999 A Trans-Atlantic Merchant's House in Charleston: Archaeological Exploratin of Refinement and Subsistence in an Urban Setting. Historical Archaeology 33(3): in press.

Landscape Studies
Martin, Ann Smart
** 1997 Shaping the Field: the Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Material Culture. In American Material Culture: the Shape of the Field, edited by Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison,pp. 1-20, Winterthur Museum, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Interdisciplinary studies
Deagan, Kathleen
** 1999 Historical Archaeology and Multicultural Engagement in the Formation of the Atlantic World. Paper presented for the College of Charleston Faculty seminar on the Atlantic World.

THURSDAY JUNE 22 or FRIDAY JUNE 23 FIELD TRIP

INTERPRETIVE EXERCISE DUE FRIDAY JUNE 23

Week 7
Monday June 26
Fauna
Sutton, Mark and Arkush, Brooke
199? Analysis of faunal remains

** Reitz, Elizabeth
1986 Urban/Rural Contrasts in Vertebrate Fauna from the Southern Atlantic Coastal Plain. Historical Archaeology 20(2): 47-58.

Botanical
Sutton, Mark and Arkush, Brooke
199? Analysis of Floral Remains
** Miller, Naomi
1989 What Mean these Seeds? A Comparative Approach to Archaeological Seed Analysis. Historical Archaeology 23(2): 50-59.

Wednesday 28 FINAL EXAM

[Syllabus subject to change without notice]