Shovel ready [electronic resource] : archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America / edited by Bernard K. Means.

Contributor(s): Means, Bernard K. (Bernard Klaus), 1964- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013Description: xii, 316 p. : illISBN: 9780817386252 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): United States. Work Projects Administration | Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) | Archaeology and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Archaeology -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Historic preservation -- United States -- History -- 20th century | New Deal, 1933-1939Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC101.U6 | S56 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : "alphabet soup" and American archaeology / Brnard 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 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : "alphabet soup" and American archaeology / Brnard 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 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.

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