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Journal of Archaeological Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2000

Historical and Anthropological Archaeology:

Forging Alliances

Robert Paynter1

Historical and anthropological archaeology have had a somewhat disjointed rela-tionship. Differences in theoretical perspectives, methodological concerns, and material records have led to a lack of cross talk between these branches of

Americanist archaeology. This paper presents recent issues in historical archae-ology, points out areas of common concern, and argues that both archaeologieswould benefit from informed discussions about the materiality and history of the

pre- and post-Columbian world.

KEY WORDS: landscape; epistemology; history.

INTRODUCTION

In 1493 Columbus set off for North America on a voyage that truly deserves

to be part of our public memory, for it, rather than the voyage of 1492, was

a harbinger of the world to come. His first voyage of 1492 was a low-budget,

three-ship reconnaissance survey. The second voyage began in 1493 with at least17 ships, 1200 to 1500 men, and explicit plans to establish enterprises to begin

the real work of colonization. The goals of the second voyage were those for

centuries throughout the Western Hemisphere—find converts and gold; and on

Hispaniola, as throughout the Western Hemisphere, conversion took second place

to accumulation. The gold, never plentiful, was rapidly depleted through despotic

taxes and enforced mining. Seekingan alternative form of accumulation, Columbus

enslaved 1500 of Hispaniola’s people. Five hundred were transported to Spain

of whom only 300 survived the passage. The survivors died shortly after arrival.

History shows that Columbus’s idea of an Atlantic slave trade in Native Americanswas not realized, in part because of the colonizers’ practices of terrorizing the

1Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003.

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local population and savagely exploiting their labor in mines and fields, driving the

native population of Hispaniola virtually extinct by 1550. However, and somewhat

unwittingly, Columbus did bring the source of Caribbean profits on this second

voyage—sugar plants. By 1516 the first capital-intensive sugar mill was establishedon Hispaniola and by the mid-1500s sugar exports from the island were a major

source of Spanish wealth. The decimated indigenous population was not a large

enough labor force for this commodity, and thus came to the Western Hemisphere,

in chains, the people of Africa who tilled the fields, cut the cane, and worked the

mills. The transport of enslaved Africans to Hispaniola was first sanctioned in

1501, and by 1517 a contract was let by the crown of Spain for 4000 Africans

(Jane, 1988, pp. 20–188; Koning, 1976, pp. 70–94; Las Casas, 1992, pp. 14–25;

Morison, 1991, pp. 389–399, 481–495; Williams, 1970, pp. 23–45).

Columbus’s second voyage is a capsule of the practices and processes bywhich European culture moved from its position on the periphery of the medieval

world (Abu-Lughod, 1989) to become part of the core of our post-Columbian world

system. More generally, the late 15th century was the beginning of a historically

unique conjunction of forces that resulted in dreams and practices of European

global conquest. It began with European advances into Africa, followed shortly

thereafter by the invasion of the Americas. Later the peoples of South, East, and

Central Asia, and then Oceania, were caught up in what eventually became our

world, a world of global scale struggles to extract surpluses, to exert political domi-

nance, to build communities, andto foster senses of political and personal identities.It is these multiple and diverse processes and the variety of responses to

them that constitute the subject matter of historical archaeology. That historical

archaeology is about the archaeology of European expansion is a thesis with a

solid history in the discipline. Initially (and it was only some 30 years ago that

the journal Historical Archaeology was founded) there were those who based the

discipline’s definition on methodology—historical archaeology being the study of

a people’s material culture with the aid of their documents. Schuyler (1978) com-

piles many of these early arguments; Historical Archaeology 27(1), introduced by

Cleland (1993), also has a number of articles on the history of the society (see alsoDeagan, 1982; Little, 1994; Orser, 1996, pp. 1–28; South, 1994). However, many

practitioners always saw historical archaeology as staking a claim to a slice of

world history largely unexamined by anthropologists. For example, Deetz (1968)

early on conceived of the task as the study of Late Man in North America and more

recently advocates the study of “the spread of European societies worldwide, be-

ginning in the 15th century, and their subsequent development and impact on native

peoples in all parts of the world” (Deetz, 1991, p. 1). South (ed., 1977) stresses

the importance of studying the British colonial system and not just particular sites,

and more recently in studying the energetics of world cultural systems riven byclass distinctions (South, 1988). Schuyler (1970, p. 83) succinctly describes his-

torical archaeology as “the study of the material manifestation of the expansion

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of European culture into the non-European world starting in the 15th century and

ending with industrialization or the present” (see also Schuyler, 1991). Leone

(1977, p. xvii), working with insights from Marx, argues that historical archaeol-

ogy deals “with modern society or with its direct historical foundations. . .

people,places, and processes tied up with the Industrial Revolution, the founding of the

modern English-speaking world, or directly with modern Americans.” For Leone,

this problematic provides a place for historical archaeology within anthropology:

“it has a special way of analyzing our society” (1977, p. xxi).

Today, many practitioners trained in North America adhere to the position

that historical archaeology is about the ways of life of post-Columbian peoples

(e.g., Deagan, 1982, 1988; Falk, 1991; Leone, 1995; Orser, 1996). Less cer-

tainty surrounds the key features and dynamics of this way of life. Deetz’s (1977)

structuralist-idealist paradigm is a major research perspective. Approaches empha-sizing traditional and revised ecological models also have been advocated (e.g.,

Hardesty, 1985; Mrozowski, 1993, 1996). Although mainstream social science

perspectives dominate the conception of politics and economy, others have argued

for the relevancy of any of a number of marxian and other critical approaches (e.g.,

Leone, 1995; McGuire and Paynter, 1991; Orser, 1988). Theoretical approaches

rarely dominate the discussion in historical archaeology as most of what historical

archaeologists have done is the very familiar work of “archaeography” (Deetz,

1988b, p. 18), the detailing of aspects of the post-Columbian way of life. Thus,

much of what is done in historical archaeology is what is done in any archaeology,teasing out the methodological issues about interpreting material remains with the

added issue of the interplay of documentary and material sources of information

[see Little (1994) and Orser (1996) for very useful overviews of the intellectual

currents in historical archaeology].

What is the place of the post-Columbian world in the discipline of anthropo-

logical archaeology? It should represent an important subject matter for a discipline

interested in a comparative perspective on such matters as faction process, state

formation, world systems, and identity construction (e.g., Blanton et al., 1996;

Brumfiel, 1992; Brumfiel and Fox, 1994; Chase-Dunn, 1992; Friedman, 1992;Patterson and Gailey, 1987; Rowlands et al., 1987; Yoffee, 1995). Nonetheless,

the post-Columbian world constitutes an understudied subject in anthropological

archaeology (cf. Patterson, 1993). It is understudied, perhaps, in much the same

way the ethnography of Europe and of the United States are understudied due to

anthropology’s aversion to the ways of life of the West (Cole, 1977; Wolf, 1982).

It is also, perhaps, understudied by anthropological archaeologists because its use

of documents seems somehow to circumvent the difficult task of material inter-

pretation that is at the heart of “pre-historic” archaeology (Hodder, 1989, p. 141;

Watson and Fotiadis, 1990, p. 615). All the same, historical archaeologists havebeen seeking a disciplinary understanding that bridges between the concerns of

anthropology and history, that uses objects to study the mediation of actions and

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meanings. This can be accomplished only if its analysis of the past 500 years

approaches the creation of a vast array of ways of life through the understanding

that comes from the anthropological archaeological perspectives of comparison

and material analysis.With its emphasis on studying the West, using documents and objects, histori-

cal archaeology inhabits a liminal space in the anthropological imagination (Orser,

1996, p. 10). And, this liminal position of historical archaeology, caught between

history and anthropology, between culture and action, between ethnohistory and

ethnography, between the past and the present, has bedeviled my writing of this

review. How do I simultaneously address the concerns of anthropological archae-

ologists, historians, historical archaeological colleagues, and colleagues in other

disciplines interested in the particular versions of theory to which I subscribe?

Moreover, since historical archaeology is so clearly a discipline in the making,how do I write a review knowing that it is from an admittedly constrained position

(Harding, 1986; Morgen, 1997)?

Part of the answer is to note what is not being reviewed here and in a sub-

sequent article. Specifically, I have tried to cover topics as they are addressed by

historical archaeologists. I do not take on a comprehensive study of how histo-

rians and social theorists have taken on the post-Columbian world. However, for

areas that have only recently begun to receive historical archaeology’s attention,

especially with regards to framing the discussion, I draw on historians and social

theorists who open up particularly useful lines of research.Another part of the answer is to recognize some of my constraints. I princi-

pally study the post-Columbian world as it has played out in the North American

northeast. Although I try to bring a global perspective to this task, my thinking is

enmeshed within the practices of historical archaeology in this area, where I also

live and work in an anthropology department. As a result, the political movements

and the intellectual milieu all contribute to how I understand the past of this region

and its place in the world. Additionally, I am interested in developing a critical ar-

chaeology, one that confronts the ideological structures and practices that promote

inequality in this region and in the globe at large. Thus, I am interested in develop-ing understandings of the recent past that work against the fairly common cultural

givens in the United States of global dominance based on inevitable technological

progress, grounded fuzzily in biological determinisms concerning racial and gen-

der superiority (e.g., Escobar, 1995; Patterson, 1995). Since deconstructing these

ethnocentric common senses can be at the heart of the anthropological enterprise, I

want to contribute to the project of bringing this sort of anthropological perspective

to historical archaeology’s study of the post-Columbian world.

From this perspective, the nexus of the development of mercantile and then in-

dustrial capitalist class relations, the use of race in relations of class exploitation andnational conquest, the development of a conquest state tied to capitalist wealth ac-

cumulation, and the formation of heterosexual, patriarchal gender relations creates

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the social dynamics that give distinctive shape to the past 500 years. Although I

believe that in general, regardless of one’s global location over the last 500 years,

one would have to come to grips with the class, race, state formation, and gender

relations spun out of northwestern Europe and North America, I also acknowledgethat the particulars at any one place will be interestingly different from how things

worked themselves out in these areas. Learning these additional histories is an

important task for historical archaeology. Moreover, in the vein of anthropological

inquiry, learning about histories elsewhere on the globe will affect understand-

ings of the general theoretical constructs of capitalism, racism, and patriarchy,

and reflect back on our particular understandings of the histories of the core areas

themselves (Schmidt and Patterson, 1995). Building this larger set of understand-

ings is the unfinished task of historical archaeology; and as a result, this paper is

far from a complete synthesis. It is a review given these concerns, for the sakeof colleagues in anthropological archaeology interested in social stratification,

regardless of whether their data include written documents.

The review is developed in two articles. The first considers the practice of

historical archaeology, the issues of contemporary interest, the debates of contem-

porary concern, and the articulation of historical archaeology and anthropological

archaeology. The second, which will appear in a subsequent issue of the journal,

considers the history of the last 500 years, as seen from the vantage point of his-

torical archaeology. A recent literature section for both these articles accompanies

the second article, “People and Processes of the Post-Columbian World.”

GLOBAL RESEARCH

Historical archaeology has been mostly practiced in eastern North America

and the Caribbean, pursuing the goals of documenting the cultures of people of

European descent (principally from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula) and

to lesser, but increasing extents, for people of African and Native American descent.

Although the eastern United States and the Caribbean are the areas of greatestvolume of research, one of the most important trends in historical archaeology is

the study of the European colonial practices and the resultant resistances around

the world.

In North America in addition to the English, the Dutch and the French

also were significant colonial powers, and their material remains have come un-

der greater scrutiny (e.g., Huey, 1991; Janowitz, 1993; Moussette, 1996). Stud-

ies of the North American West are of increasing frequency (e.g., Farnsworth,

1989; Hardesty, 1988; Praetzellis and Praetzellis, 1992; Praetzellis et al., 1987,

1988; Purser, 1989; Wegars, 1993), with provocative suggestions for thematic re-search issues to frame site-specific work found in Hardesty’s (1991b) collection of

plenary papers on “Historical Archaeology in the American West” (Ayres, 1991;

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Greenwood, 1991; Hardesty, 1991b; Schuyler, 1991) and Lightfoot’s (1995) ar-

chaeology of pluralism at Fort Ross in northern California (see also Marshall and

Maas, 1997).

For the areas of North and South America influenced by the Spanish Empirethe articles in Thomas’s (1989, 1990, 1991) quincentennial volumes on the Spanish

Borderlands are indispensable contributions and reviews (see also Farnsworth and

Williams, 1992). Kathleen Deagan, as reported in a number of publications (e.g.,

1983, 1985; Deagan and Cruxent, 1993), has been directing research on and writ-

ing detailed case studies and regional syntheses about the Spanish Caribbean

and Florida. Kowalewski (1997) is bringing the notable studies of prehistoric

Oaxaca into the historic period with considerations of regional change in the

post-Columbian world. Sued-Badillo (1992, 1995) and Rouse (1986, 1992) of-

fer contrasting versions of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean first caught upin European colonial schemes (see also Patterson, 1991). Jones (1989) has begun

the study of the long history of Spanish-Mayan domination and resistance, and

Kepecs (1997) and Alexander (1997) have conducted regional-scale archaeolog-

ical and ethnohistorical research on the conquest period in Yucatan. Armstrong

(1985, 1990) and Delle (1996, 1998) present detailed studies of Jamaican plan-

tations. Handler (e.g., 1997; Lange and Handler, 1985) has reported extensively

on plantation life and its impacts on the African population in Barbados. Galways

Plantation on Montserrat has been studied by Pulsipher (e.g., 1991). Orser (1994)

and Agorsah (1993, 1995) have studied maroon populations in Brazil and theCaribbean, respectively (see also Funari, 1996). Schaedel (1992), summarizing the

sparse archaeological studies from historical South America, sets out a sweeping

agenda for a historical archaeology of the past 500 years. Rice has been investigat-

ing wineries in colonial Peru with an eye to studying issues of technological transfer

(e.g., Rice and Van Beck, 1993; Rice and Smith, 1988). Jamieson (1996) offers

analyses of social life in Ecuador, with attention to gender relations. In lowland

South America Vargas Arenas and Sanoja (e.g., Vargas Arenas, 1995) are bringing

their distinctive and sophisticated theoretical approach of “social archaeology” to

understand the colonial period, especially in its urban manifestations.An extensive literature exists on the British Isles that self-identifies as being

about post-Medieval archaeology (e.g., Crossley, 1989). Among this important

body of information, M. Johnson’s (1993, 1996) studies of the class and gender pro-

cesses operating in England is essential reading [see also Driscoll (1992), Samson

(1992), and Webster (1997) for similar concerns for earlier periods in the British

Isles]. Mangan’s study of the landscapes of Catalonia during the transition from

feudalism to capitalism (1994) is one of the few historical archaeological works

in English from continental Europe [see Crumley (1994), McGovern (1990), and

Woolf (1997) for overviews of precursor situations]. Baram (1996) and Silberman(1989; Handsman and Silberman, 1991) have begun to take apart how European

capitalism came to Palestine and how this archaeology figures in the contemporary

state-building efforts in the region.

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Southern Africa has developed an extensive literature on what Hall calls the

archaeology of impact (1993). Some of the works are singular contributions to ar-

chaeological theory deserving broad readership. Hall’s (1992) study of the ideology

of race coded in the material record of South Africa, for instance, is an importanttheoretical intervention into the interpretation of meaning using material culture.

Carmel Schrire’s (1995) extraordinary book informs us about the construction

of race and apartheid with first-rate interpretations of the past and provocatively

reflexive understandings of the conduct of archaeology (see also Schrire, 1991,

1992) Warren Perry’s (1996) archaeologically based reconsideration of Shaka and

the Zulu state demonstrates the inextricable role of European slavers in this pro-

cess, an interpretation that should affect the ethnology of state origins. West and

Central Africa have a growing body of research. De Corse (1999) has surveyed

West African archaeology with an eye to interpreting the material remains of NorthAmerican and Caribbean African-American peoples. The Kingdom of Benin has

been the subject of archaeological research by Kelly (1997a,b). Rowlands (1989)

and Thomas-Emeagwali (1989) lay out the contours for a historical archaeology of

Cameroon and Nigeria, respectively, that take into account the long-term processes

of political economy indigenous to the area, and the distinctive nature of their inter-

digitation with European accumulation. Studies of modern material culture, such

as Rowlands and Warnier’s (1996) analysis of magic and iron smelting or Steiner’s

(1994) study of the African art trade have obvious relevance for understanding the

historical period. Peter Schmidt (1978, 1995; Schmidt and Childs, 1995), in hissignificant body of work on East Africa, has sought to uncover the dynamics of

these societies hidden in colonial “histories.” As in West Africa, understanding

these hidden histories is a necessary precursor for conducting a historical archae-

ology of the area, one that will necessarily involve understanding the dynamics

of the Islamic world system (see also LaViolette et al., 1989; Pearson, 1997). Of

course Africa north of the Sahara has a long history of contact with Europeans.

Nonetheless, the most recent stage of European expansion began in the 1400s with

the Portuguese invasion of Morocco, an episode given exemplary consideration in

Redman’s (1986) study of the strategic town of Qsar es-Seghir (see also Booneet al., 1990).

Oceania has seen significant work in Australia (e.g., Connah, 1994) as another

of the growing centers of historical archaeology. A remarkable collaboration by

Patrick Kirch and Marshall Sahlins (1992) brings the perspectives of Sahlins’s

structural history into the study of the archaeology and ethnography of Hawaii.

Nicholas Thomas’s (1991) studies of contemporary material “entanglements” in

Polynesia are important reading for anyone interested in material culture theory

and the cultural workings of objects in the borderlands of colonial situations.

All of these world areas, and others, are developing distinctive understandingsof how European culture arrived and entangled itself in indigenous social, politi-

cal, cultural, and economic affairs. In some areas, such as southern Africa, enough

studies have been conducted for practitioners to develop critiques of conventional

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understandings of European conquest; most are consumed with foundational de-

scriptive work of excavation, chronology, and archival research. All the same,

Schmidt and Patterson (1995) have brought together an important collection of ar-

ticles that point to what alternative archaeologies of the colonial and postcolonialperiods might look like.

Historical archaeology has not settled on a world-scale narrative to tie together

the events and trajectories noted from around the globe. One influential model is

offered by Deetz (1977, 1988a). For North American New England Deetz suggests

a cultural progression from yeoman to folk to Georgian as a temporal succession

of culture types. The yeoman-period culture is an initial close approximation to

the colonizing fragment of European culture. Cultural mutations resulting from

isolation from Europe characterize the folk period. And, a reintegration of New

England into the emerging consumer capitalist culture of the 19th century is theforce behind the Georgian period. Critics note limitations of this model in applica-

tions elsewhere on the globe. Kelso (1992) evaluates Deetz’s tripartite model using

Virginian houses and gravestones and finds continuity where Deetz finds breaks

and breaks where Deetz finds continuity, evidence for the different immigration

and class histories of New England and Virginia. Hall (1992) notes the obvious

material differences encountered in South Africa and uses the discrepancy in a very

clear argument for thinking about the discourses on class and slavery characteristic

of European colonial ventures. It would seem that a Deetzian characterization of

culture change might be quite accurate for some factions in some colonies at someperiods, but has limited utility as a general narrative framework. Nonetheless, it

is the most productive, regional–national-scale model developed and worked with

by practitioners of historical archaeology to date (see also Harrington, 1989b;

Sweeney, 1994).

A very different narrative has been offered by Patterson (1993, pp. 349–367).

His textbook, Archaeology: The Historical Development of Civilizations, after re-

viewing the familiar terrain of state formation in the Near East, Egypt, China, South

America, and Mesoamerica, concludes with a chapter entitled “Civilization and Its

Discontents: The Archaeology of Capitalism.” He surveys the global developmentof capitalism as “an economic system . . . concerned with the production and sale of

commodities in markets” (Patterson, 1993, p. 350). In this narrative, the plunder of

mineral wealth from the Americas and the theft of African labor provide the basis

for mercantile accumulation in northwestern Europe from the 15th through the

18th centuries. Industrial production in northwestern Europe spread throughout

the globe in the 19th and 20th centuries, knitting the world together through the

strands of the market and the politics of imperialism and neocolonialism.

Two key points underwrite Patterson’s narrative: the post-Columbian world

is the story of the rise of capitalism, and this story must be told on a worldstage. The former is a point assertively argued by Leone and Potter (1988, p. 19):

“Whether or not historical archaeology is to be an archaeology of the emergence

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and development of capitalism has been settled in the affirmative.” A number of

authors have taken up the charge to understand capitalism from the perspective of

material culture (Beaudry et al., 1991; Handsman, 1983; Leone, 1995; McGuire,

1988; Orser, 1988; Paynter, 1988). Indeed, Leone (1988b) makes use of the sys-tematic tendency of capitalist political economies to go through crises to provide

a causal argument for Deetz’s culture periods. Patterson’s second point about the

world scale of the phenomenon, and hence of the discipline, reverberates with a

large body of theoretical work (e.g., Brewer, 1980), such as Wallerstein’s (1974,

1980, 1989) school of world-systems analysis, Wolf’s (1982) historical anthropol-

ogy (Schneider and Rapp, 1995), Samir Amin’s (1989) analyses of world-scale

accumulation and accompanying culture of Eurocentrism, and work on precapital-

ist world systems (e.g., Abu-Lughod, 1989; Blanton et al., 1993; Champion, 1989;

Chase-Dunn, 1992; Rowlands et al., 1987). Historical archaeology has sought toarticulate world-scale and local processes in such studies as Lewis’s (1977, 1984)

studies of settlement systems, Delle’s (1996, 1998) studies of Caribbean planta-

tions, Schuyler’s (1991) thoughts on the American West, and my own work on

New England regional settlement patterns (Paynter, 1982, 1985).

A point widely recognized, though too often honored in the breach, is that

world-scale processes must be understood as the articulation of European and in-

digenous processes, and not simply the response to the imperatives of European

political economics (e.g., Blaut, 1993; Mintz, 1977; Wolf, 1982). Part of the prob-

lem of giving dynamic force to both sociocultural trajectories is how to imaginethe process of cultural interaction. Most commonly, this is addressed with notions

of assimilation and acculturation. However, Wolf (1982, pp. 6–7) warns about the

dangerous metaphors that underlie such constructs. He cautions that understanding

world cultural history as the collision of so many differently colored billiard balls,

heretofore isolated cultures, blinds us to the processes at the core of historical

change—the continual interpenetration of ways of life with resulting cultural, po-

litical, and economic reconfigurations. Unfortunately, words like “Contact period”

commonly used by archaeologists to talk about the interactions between would-be

colonizing Europeans and their targets sound too much like the comforting click of billiard balls on the cosmic billiard table of world history. Schuyler (1991) captures

the scale of the process with his idea of “ethnohistoric interaction spheres,” though

such a conceptualization runs the risk of becoming a very much bigger billiard

ball. Perry (1996) reconceptualizes the colonial period of intense interaction and

reconfiguration, drawing on the work of Hall (1993, pp. 183–186) and N. Thomas

(1991), as a period of impact and entanglement. These metaphors have the merit of

suggesting the violence of the interactions and the agency of both the indigenous

and European cultures. That historical archaeology has yet to find a replacement

for the bland “Contact period” does not hide the discipline’s recognition that thepost-Columbian world is about the sudden and persistent intertwining of formerly

unrelated historical processes. This intertwining affected historical trajectories in

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the Americas, in Africa and Asia, and reverberated and affected the trajectories

of Europe. The study of this post-Columbian world can be undertaken only by

simultaneously conducting local studies informed by theoretical frameworks that

allow for the influence of global-scale processes, a task that clearly needs muchmore empirical and theoretical work.

Charles Orser (1996) has recently articulated an important sustained vision

of a global archaeology. He makes use of a mutualist social theory to cast a net of

relations—social, material, and ideological—across the globe. Arguing for histor-

ical archaeology as the study of the modern world, he identifies key themes—

colonialism, capitalism, Eurocentrism, and modernity—for understanding this

world. Along with reviewing work by other historical archaeologists reflecting

these themes, he presents his very interesting and recent work on the maroon

community of Palmares in Brazil and famine-period villages in Ireland by way of illustrating global networks. Along the way, the reader is introduced to the history

of historical archaeology and post-Medieval archaeology, the intricacies of the

present debates in historical archaeology on interpreting meaning, and the devel-

opment of landscapes as important objects of study. Though I do not use his notion

of “haunts” to set my theory in motion or frame my discussion in the terms of his

four themes, there is much in his work that reverberates with my understandings

of the post-Columbian world. Orser has produced a very provocative introduction

to historical archaeology as well as a significant conceptualization of how to study

global cultures; it is a good starting place for further study of this subdiscipline.

THE MATERIALITY OF AND METHODOLOGIES FOR THE STUDY

OF THE POST-COLUMBIAN WORLD

An Ontology of Objects and Landscapes

Historical archaeology is both blessed and cursed with studying a way of life

awash in material culture (Deetz, 1973). Not surprisingly, much of the work of historical archaeology involves detailing these objects, work that discloses who

made what, when, where, and how it was used. Noel Hume’s (1969) classic com-

pendium still stands as a much needed reference and paradigm for this impor-

tant work (e.g., Beaudry et al., 1988; Carskadden and Gartley, 1990; Gates and

Ormerod, 1982; Jones and Sullivan, 1985; Kenmotsu, 1990; Lister and Lister,

1987). Such studies also seek to link the objects, their makers, and their users

to the larger economic and social forces (e.g., D. Miller, 1987, 1997; G. Miller,

1991; Turnbaugh, 1985). The impact of anthropological archaeology can be seen

in the analysis of faunal and floral remains to disclose dimensions of subsistence(e.g., Reitz and Scarry, 1985), especially within a commodified food system (e.g.,

Bowen, 1992; Geismar and Janowitz, 1993; Landon, 1996; Reitz, 1987; Rothschild

and Balkwill, 1993), to analyze landscaping and gardening practices (e.g., Kelso,

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1994, 1996; Kelso and Beaudry, 1990; Kelso etal., 1987; Miller, 1989; Mrozowski,

1991; Mrozowski and Kelso, 1987), to investigate disease (e.g., Mrozowski, 1991;

Reinhard et al., 1986), and as the raw material in manufacturing (e.g., Claassen,

1994).How then does the researcher move from this myriad of detail to understanding

action and thought in the past? Recent work in historical archaeology has developed

new ontologies as well as analyses of new classes of information beyond the

mainstays of portable artifact analyses. There is considerable overlap with similar

discussions in anthropological archaeology that have called for new methods for

studying the material world and new approaches to materiality that have expanded

definitions of data. In historical archaeology, these critiques have addressed the

traditional “fall-out” models of material culture and added cultural landscapes to

the domain of archaeological analysis.The traditional ontological precept relating culture and objects is the notion

that culture, the subject of inquiry, leaves material correlates. This fall-out model

of material culture relations is exemplified in idealist theories, such as Deetz’s

(1967, pp. 45–49, 1977) notion of mental templates and worldviews that guide the

production of the material world, and in more materialist theories, such as South’s

(1977) notion of patterns of material culture. The task for the investigator operating

from either of these theoretical positions is to discover the culture by studying the

material patterns (e.g., Schiffer, 1976).

Increasingly, historical archaeologists are writing with a different ontology,one that embeds material culture within systems of meaning and action, one that

gives objects an active voice in cultural practices (Hodder, 1986, 1989; Shanks and

Tilley, 1987a,b; Tilley, 1990; Wobst, 1977). From this angle, studying material cul-

ture is not about studying the residue of culture, but is about studying an important

aspect of culture itself. The problem for the investigator is less to imagine material

transforms or implications and more to imagine intricate and repetitive sequences

of human-object interaction that result in the construction of meaning embedded

in social relations. In historical archaeology, authors have investigated the role

of objects with concepts of discourse, habitus, cultural biography, resistance, andritual (for a review see Shackel and Little, 1992). For instance, Hall (1992) recasts

material evidence of racisms and their concomitant resistances from a Deetzian

structural analysis to one based in the analysis of discourses. Nassaney and Abel

(1993) investigate sabotage at a cutlery factory as a significant human–object in-

teraction in capitalist societies. De Cunzo (1995) studies the rituals that weave

together people, objects and ideologies as they were used by the middle class

reformers to address the “problem” of prostitution in Philadelphia. Delle (1996,

1998) expands on the work of Harvey (1989), Soja (1989), and Lefebvre (1991) to

understand the active use of space in structuring Jamaican coffee plantations (seealso McKee, 1992; Orser, 1988). Orser (1992) advocates the use of the notion of

cultural biography to capture the shifting meanings objects take during their path

from production to forgotten trash.

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Of all the objects studied by historical archaeologists, space has been go-

ing through a significant rethinking, from a neutral and objective dimension of

measurement to a culturally mediated object. The reconceptualization is to such

an extent that one might say that a whole new class of artifact has been “discov-ered,” namely, the landscape (e.g., Beaudry, 1986; Delle, 1996, 1998; Handsman

and Harrington, 1994; Harrington, 1989a; Hood, 1996; Kelso and Most, 1990;

Mrozowski, 1991; Rubertone, 1989b; Yamin and Metheny, 1996). Hood (1996,

p. 121) refers to these nuanced notions of space as “cultural landscapes . . . [places

that] . . . physically embody the history, structure and contexts” of a given way of

life. For Rubertone (1989b, p. 50) these cultural landscapes have been “shaped and

modified by human actions and conscious design to provide housing, accommo-

date the system of production, facilitate communication and transportation, mark

social inequalities, and express aesthetics.” Not restricted to sites alone, Hood(1996, p. 122) notes that “landscapes exist in a continuum of human perception

and usage” ranging from formally planned spaces, such as gardens, to seemingly

natural places, such as abandoned fields and pastures (1996, p. 122). In between

these extremes are “a very large category of spaces that have been increasingly

referred to by such terms as houselots, yardscapes, streetscapes, vernacular land-

scapes, and so on” (Hood, 1996, p. 122). All of these have come increasingly under

the attention of archaeological investigation.

A focus on landscapes has proven a productive research plan in historical

archaeology for a number of reasons. Landscapes have proven to be a productiveway to merge information from resource management projects with that of pure

research studies (e.g., Bradley, 1984). Information on landscapes is always recov-

ered during excavation, even if artifact assemblages or decipherable architectural

fragments are absent. Moreover, landscapes have proven more realistic artifacts

for understanding the contours of life in the constantly churning world of mature

capitalism; at least landscapes are by definition primary deposits.

Archaeologists have studied various places on the North American histori-

cal landscape, including regions (e.g., Lewis, 1984; Paynter, 1982; Purser, 1989),

commercial and industrial cities (e.g., Beaudry, 1989; Beaudry and Mrozowski,1989; Cressy et al., 1982; Dickens, 1982; Harrington, 1989b; McGuire, 1991;

Mrozowski, 1991; Rothschild, 1990; Shackel, 1996; Staski, 1987; Upton, 1992),

towns and villages (e.g., Adams, 1977; Wurst, 1991), seaports (e.g., Harrington,

1992), maroon communities (e.g., Agorsah, 1993, 1995; Feder, 1994; Orser, 1996),

logging camps (Franzen, 1992), forts (e.g., Clements, 1993; Faulkner, 1986;

Monks, 1992; South, 1977; Staski, 1990), gardens (e.g., Kelso and Most, 1990;

Leone, 1988b), and the walls, roads, canals, and railroads used to demarcate and

flow between these places (e.g., Gordon and Malone, 1994, pp. 55–223; Leone,

1978; Samson, 1992). Farmsteads, plantations, and homelots are the most frequentform of report, and thus there are too many good examples to cite [Adams (1990)

and Worrell et al. (1996) are good overviews].

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The investigation of landscapes has led to the development and modification

of various techniques and methods. For instance, remote sensing and geophysical

survey have been put to good use in site survey (Clark, 1990; Garrison, 1996;

Parrington, 1983). The complex stratigraphy of historical-period sites has bene-fited from analysis using Harris matrices (Harris, 1979; Harris et al., 1993). As

noted above, palynological analysis has provided evidence of the flora on previ-

ous landscapes. The primary documents of maps and papers have given insight

into the minds of cartographers, developers, architects, and preservationists (e.g.,

Delle, 1995a,b; Harley, 1989, 1992; Paynter, 1995; Potter, 1994; Seasholes, 1988).

Though these studies provide a better understanding of how space was represented,

we have only begun to explore their connections to what Harvey (1989, pp. 220–

221) refers to as “spaces of representation (imagination).” Savulis (1992) considers

such landscapes of the imagination in her study of Shaker poetry and spirit draw-ing. Investigating these ideologies of space might take clues from Williams’s study

of the ideology of the city and the countryside (1973), Fryer’s investigations of

gender and space in the work of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather (1986), and

Dorst’s study of the positioning of Chadds Ford in the high culture of the Wyeths

and the popular culture of “historical” America (1989). These concerns bridge well

to work done on the shifting meaning of historical landscapes in Great Britain,

especially by Barbara Bender in her original study of Stonehenge (1993, 1998; see

also Tilley, 1994).

What we do know is that these rich spatial ideologies gave meaning to thephysical objects people built and encountered. Although yet to be synthesized,

these encounters happened in a spatial terrain that was simultaneously part of a

system, such as that so masterfully described and analyzed in Meinig’s geograph-

ical history of North America (1986, 1993) and fractured into parts, as presented

in Leone and Silberman’s (1995) remarkable atlas/travel guide/catalog of the U.S.

historical terrain. The challenge of studying this landscape is to keep clear that state

formation, race, gender, and class were enmeshed in these spatialities so that the

cultural landscape was constructed and experienced differently depending upon

whether one was white, black or red, whether one was rich or poor, and whetherone was male or female (e.g., De Cunzo, 1995; Epperson, 1990; Paynter, 1992;

Upton, 1985, 1992).

Documents and Meanings

Historical archaeology also is blessed and cursed with a form of data dis-

tinct from that studied by most anthropological archaeologists—written documents

(Deagan, 1988; Schuyler, 1988). Hodder (1986, p. 141) damns with faint praisethe volume of data and the presence of texts as providing the potential for more

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to contextual archaeology (1986, p. 141), something that seems to separate it from

the real task of analyzing the “harder,” document-free data of anthropological

archaeology [see also Beaudry (1996 pp. 479–480) or Orser (1996 p. 11) for a

tracing of this prejudice]. On the other hand, historical archaeologists are all toofamiliar with historians who, as discussants at meetings, question the need for

doing archaeology by pointing out that some observation based on hours of te-

dious excavation and analysis was readily available in a document (Little, 1992,

p. 5). So, do documents provide historical archaeology with an embarrassment of

riches or simply make archaeology embarrassing? How to handle documents and

material objects has concerned the discipline since its inception. Ultimately, its

answer infringes on questions of both epistemology and the study of meaning.

Mary Beaudry (1988, p. 1) has productively criticized common misuses of

documents: “Many view archival material as a control lacking in prehistory. . .

theymay use historical sites as test cases for models developed in prehistory; or they set

out to discover whether archaeological evidence properly reflects the documentary

record or vice versa.” She argues that documents are complex artifacts reflecting

a partial reality and need to be paid their intellectual due. Little (1992, p. 4) sim-

ilarly criticizes simplistic uses of documents by archaeologists: “Documentary

and archaeological data may be thought of as interdependent and complemen-

tary, or as independent and contradictory. Oddly enough, both of these views are

viable. . . .” Historical archaeologists argue today that documents must be seen as

a problematic source of information in and of themselves requiring careful studyand interpretation (e.g., De Cunzo, 1995, pp. 94–100; Deagan, 1988; Galloway,

1991; Schuyler, 1978, 1988). Both Beaudry (ed., 1988) and Little (ed., 1992) have

edited important volumes that explore methods to meld documents and objects.

Less attention has been devoted to the integration of oral histories into the

research of historical archaeologists. Among others, Schmidt (1995), Perry (1998),

Purser (1992), Kus (1997), Bender (1998), and Holland (1990) have all made use

of and thought critically about oral traditions. Oral histories bring their own sets of

problems, much more familiar to ethnographers who have to be concerned about

their own place in the society they are studying and why some people choose tobecome their key informants. Though oral histories represent untapped potentials

and uninvestigated problems, their use would be a reminder of who the documents

have forgotten and what the objects may record.

One of the most sophisticated considerations of how to consider documents

and objects can be found in Leone’s notion of “middle-range theory” (e.g., Leone,

1988a,b; Leone and Crosby, 1987; Leone and Potter, 1988). This is obviously an

appreciative nod to Binford; nonetheless, what Leone suggests is a transforma-

tion of Binford. Specifically, the idea is to compare the results of a documentary

study and a study of the material record. The most familiar strategy in historicalarchaeology looks for points of similarity, of confirmation: deed chains that can

be matched with assemblage dates, social status indices that can be matched with

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probate and/or tax and/or census class assessments (Miller, 1980; Spencer-Wood,

1987). Points of disjuncture typically suggest problems of sample bias on the part

of the material record, a methodological stance that contributes to the position by

many historians (and historical anthropologists) that anything they can learn fromobjects is already known in the documents. Leone makes a key argument. First,

he acknowledges that documents and objects are not really independent lines of

evidence; they are, after all, the results of people participating in the same cultural

practices. Nonetheless, they track very different moments of that process subject

to very different biases and social processes. If, as Leone argues, they are thought

of “as if” they are independent, one can guard against unwarranted functionalism.

Guarding against undue functionalism is important. When documents and objects

tell different stories, especially stories in which one record is met with silence in

the other, this may be due to sample problems, or it may be due to the operationsof that past way of life, operations that seek to hide, silence, and thereby dominate.

In short, points of mismatch between objects and documents can be used to track

the work of social power.

Leone’s middle-range theory is quite compatible with the insights of Alison

Wylie on method in historical archaeology. Wylie (1993), in her typically clear

and lucid manner, considers the limits of a Binfordian epistemology of logical

positivism for historical archaeology, given its enmeshment of a documentary and

objectified data base, and the archaeologist’s simultaneous position as participant

and observer [see also Saitta (1989) for an important critique of positivist epis-temologies]. She concludes that an appropriate epistemology is one that uses the

notion of “cables of inference.” Such an exposition is one in which “no individual

line of evidence may enjoy foundational security, [but] taken together, multiple

(independent) lines of evidence can impose decisive empirical constraints on what

we can reasonably accept (or entertain) as a plausible account of the past.” Indeed,

this seems the more favored, if rarely explicitly articulated, epistemology of most

historical archaeologists (see also Deagan, 1988; Deetz, 1993, pp. 158–163).

Historical archaeology also finds itself enmeshed in more familiar debates

about epistemology. The common anthropological archaeology epistemology of testing and verification has been argued for in historical archaeology; as in an-

thropological archaeology, there has been the recent advocacy of an interpretive

epistemology that seeks an insider’s view of these past cultures (e.g., Beaudry,

1996; Cleland, 1988; South, 1977; Yentsch, 1994). The promise of an interpretive

approach, as Hodder notes above, is all the stronger because of the presence of

documents that give access to an emic perspective, the meaning systems of past

peoples (Schuyler, 1977). This possibility for the study of meaning is the source

of some of the most intense debates and fruitful methodological developments in

the subdiscipline. Little and Shackel (1992) cogently parse the debates in histori-cal archaeology, cataloging the various perspectives as processual approaches that

consider meaning to be “secondary and invisible,” structural approaches that see

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creating meaning as the goal of culture, and postprocessual approaches that eschew

the distinction between action and meaning (e.g., Little and Shackel, 1992, p. 1).

Despite the heat generated by these arguments, there are points of general

agreement among the holders of these different positions. For one there is consid-erable agreement that the meanings of things need to be and can be considered

in historical archaeology. The reason historical archaeologists can use objects to

approach meaning is because of a general agreement that objects are recursive, that

“objects recycle culture, returning it to the concrete and empirical world where it

may be experienced, learned, and changed” (see also Leone, 1986, pp. 416–417;

Little and Shackel, 1992, p. 1). Moreover, there is agreement that the meanings

of objects can emerge from studying objects in their contextual relations. Dis-

agreement exists about exactly what the relevant contexts are, whose meanings

are interpretable, whether the perceptions of some factions dominate those of allmembers of society, and whether the interpretation of meaning is an end in itself

or part of a larger enterprise (Beaudry, 1996). A wide range of methods (e.g.,

Leone and Potter, 1988; Shackel and Little, 1992) has been suggested to get at

meaning, including structural analysis (e.g., Deetz, 1977; Yentsch, 1991), con-

textual analysis (e.g., Beaudry, 1993; Beaudry et al., 1991; Little and Shackel,

1992; Mrozowski, 1993, 1996), dialogical analysis (Hall, 1992), Foucauldian ap-

proaches (e.g., Shackel, 1993), analyses of ideology (e.g., Leone, 1984; McGuire,

1991; Shackel, 1995; Wurst, 1991), studies of ritual (De Cunzo, 1995; Wall, 1991),

analyses of “double-consciousness” (Mullins, 1996, 1999; Paynter, 1992), analy-ses drawn from a humanistic anthropology (e.g., Yentsch, 1994), and hermeneutic

readings (Garman, 1994). The history of the debates is well-tilled ground, worth

the attention of any archaeologist interested in linking meaning and material re-

mains (e.g., Beaudry, 1996; Beaudry et al., 1991; Deetz, 1977; Leone, 1984, 1986;

Little, 1994; Orser, 1996, pp. 159–182).

The approach to how meaning worked in the past has had implications for how

archaeologists construct meanings today, resulting in experimentations in writing

archaeology. Some of the strongest writing that makes implicit use of the idea of

“cables of inference” can be found in the work of Anne Yentsch (1988a,b, 1994).Be the subject old houses in New England, fishing communities of Cape Cod,

or the relations between masters and slaves, Europeans and Africans, whites and

blacks, Yentsch builds strong cables that disclose in intricate interweavings the

texture of past lives, structures, and histories.

Russell Handsman’s (1987) experimental narratives in New England history

provide both a critique of how New England’s past has been represented and a

prospectus for the writing of the region’s hidden histories. Other experiments have

included forays into fiction. In an important study, Spector (1993) explores the

limits of traditional scientific methods and epistemologies for bridging the presentto the past. Her study offers a powerful mix of fiction and biography to the end of

decolonizing our understandings of Dakota lives in the 19th century and those of

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archaeologists in the 20th. Another important move in this direction is Ferguson’s

(1992) assessment of colonoware. He, too, mixes genres, using fiction to force on

himself and his reader a confrontation with the texture and the humanity of the

African and African-American people who constructed these distinctive ceramicvessels. Ferguson (1992) also offers another important departure from standard so-

cial scientific prose in historical archaeology, a strong authorial voice. In a striking

conclusion, Ferguson relates some of his personal experiences in the desegragating

South, experiences that unite personal, political, and structural history to give an

urgency to his inquiry into African American folkways. A similar strong voice

can be found in the work of Schrire (1995), who recounts the enmeshment of

her historical archaeology of South Africa with her life experiences within South

Africa’s various faces of prejudice. Far more than the professional reminiscences

(e.g., Binford, 1972) or fictional parables (e.g., Flannery, 1976), these strong voicesand experimental writing techniques seek to convince us about the past, and our

own practices, in new ways. This marks quite an epistemological distance for a

discipline to travel given that its leading journal advised authors to avoid the use

of the first person pronoun in submitted articles (Anonymous, 1991, p. 124).

From landscapes to self-reflection, historical archaeology has been discover-

ing new ways to open up its subject matter, to give a more textured understanding

of its subject, and to be responsive to intellectual currents in the broader disciplines

of anthropology, history, and contemporary academic ideology. In all these issues

there are many parallels between work in historical archaeology and in anthropo-logical archaeology. There is one additional way in which, at least as practiced

in North America, these two subdisciplines differ—the treatment of the cultural

relationship between the archaeologist and the people of the past.

PARTICIPANTS AND OBSERVERS

Let us for the moment construe this problem [of writing history] in a more empiricalor commonsense fashion as being simply that of our relationship to the past, and of our

possibility of understanding the latter’s monuments, artifacts, and traces. The dilemmaof any “historicism” can then be dramatized by the peculiar, unavoidable, yet seeminglyunresolvable alternation between Identity and Difference. (Jameson, 1988, p. 150)

Archaeology often assumes a difference between the people of the present

and the people of the past. An alternative position recognizes the significance

of identity in the construction of the past: “Archaeological interpretations are as

much a function of the social setting in which they are formulated and presented as

they are of the social matrix from which they are excavated” (Leone and Preucel,

1992, p. 119). Obviously, thinking about history involves the simultaneous recog-

nition of identity and difference, a complex problem in and of itself (e.g., Gero,1989; Gero et al., 1983; Leone, 1981, 1986; Lowenthal, 1985; Patterson, 1995;

Shanks and Tilley, 1987a; Tilley, 1989; Wobst, 1989). The problem takes on a

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peculiarly empirical, rather than simply philosophical, twist in historical archae-

ology, since indeed historical archaeology is the study of the origins of modern

cultures (e.g., Deetz, 1977, pp. 156–161). In a very straightforward sense, and un-

like the epistemological problems facing anthropological archaeologists, historicalarchaeologists are simultaneously observers of and participants in the subject of

their inquiry.

Within historical archaeology, studies that take on this dilemma are referred

to as “critical archaeology.” Themes in a critical historical archaeology include

bringing class relations into view in a society that insists on the omnipresence of

the middle class, bringing people of color into view in a culture that is Eurocentric,

arguing against the master themes of triumphalist history (Hu-DeHart, 1995),

such as “the vanishing Indian” or the inevitability of progress, and identifying the

historical contexts that gave rise to key and seemingly universal metaphors thatundergird such narratives, such as the naturalness of individuals and the reality of

objective time.

Handsman and Leone (1989) present a particularly clear brief for and exem-

plification of the method of critical historical archaeology. They begin by noting

that “there is a remarkable separation in capitalist societies between life as it is,

life as it is thought to be, and life as it might have been” (p. 118). Life as it is

thought to be, ideology, is taken to be an understanding that serves the interests

of society’s elites. Critical social science has as its goal the unmasking of these

ideologies, and critical archaeology’s task “is to analyze how modern ideologyis projected into the past and how that projection reproduced present society’s

relations of domination” (p. 119). The object of analysis should be the “inter-

pretive models, museum interpretations, or more generally, the stories that are

told about the prehistoric and historic past” (p. 119). In these stories and inter-

pretations, archaeologists should look for how life is constructed as timeless or

matter of fact, masking separations and oppositions that might have led to different

presents. These timeless qualities specifically hide the historical contingency of

today’s power structures; disclosing their contingency is the goal of the analysis.

This analysis should not simply remain in the domain of the scholar, but, theyargue, should be presented in equally public and accessible forms to empower

the general public. The end goal of such public presentations should be not only

negatively critical, but also positively critical, by suggesting that there have been

many possible ways of life and that the future also is rich with possibility (p. 119).

Handsman and Leone go on to make particularly deft analyses of how exhibits

about such diverse figures as George Washington and working-class Connecticut

clock makers are used by and mystified in service to the ideological precepts of in-

dividualism. Their analyses include counter-exhibits, whose aim would be to alter

the impression that the social world is made up of “historically-constituted, self-determining, sentient . . . individuals [who] are assumed to have existed in all times

and places” (p. 133) and replace this with an understanding that our conception of

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individualism is “bound up with the histories of merchant capital and industrial

capitalism” (p. 133).

A number of studies take the analysis of public exhibits and monuments

as points of departure for a critical archaeology. For instance, Michael Blakey(1990) analyzes the presentation of whites and people of color at the Smithsonian

Museums in Washington, D.C. He condemns the consistent association of Euro-

Americans with the powerful technological and intellectual strands of American

national identity and Afro-Americans and Native Americans with the ethnically

and emotionally distinct and passive ways of life that somehow cohabited America

but were separate from and insignificant to the formation of an American identity. I

(Paynter, 1990) took the public historical landscape of Massachusetts, its museums,

living history exhibits, and National Register sites, as a text that wrote Afro-

American life out of the history of the north, thereby recreating a distinctly northernform of white racism. Paul Shackel (1995) uses the changing treatment of the

engine house at Harper’s Ferry where John Brown made his famous stand to

penetrate the shifting contours of armed resistance in the national story of the

Civil War.

Parker Potter (1994), in his monograph on critical historical archaeology, be-

gins with ethnography rather than exhibits (see also Leone et al., 1987). He studied

the cultural history of Annapolis as part of the Archaeology at Annapolis Project.

The “past” has long been used by elite Annapolitans to establish their social po-

sition. One particularly significant contemporary use, in an economy dominatedby tourists and nonlocal state legislators, separates those knowledgeable about

colonial artifacts and architecture (the locals) from other more transient elites (the

legislators). Another use of the past is to present George Washington as a model of

appropriate tourist behavior. In an attempt to unmask these ideological uses of the

past, Archaeology at Annapolis developed archaeological tours that acknowledged

the social position of the interpreter and the visitor in the present, with the goal of

teaching about how knowledge of the past is created. The model narratives explic-

itly seek to historicize modern patterns of behavior, such as dining etiquette and

equipment, and architectural codes and conventions, by identifying their originsduring the Georgian revolution, and to disclose the historically inaccurate con-

struction of George Washington as a “tourist.” Potter also presents the instruments

used to evaluate the significant impacts these tours had on the general public. The

study, framed with informative discussions about the philosophies of critical re-

search, the history of historical archaeology, and the history of Annapolis, is an

engaging and important book, of significance for any archaeologist interested in

how the past and present interweave.

Critical historical archaeology springs from anthropology’s distinctive gen-

eral lack of interest in the white core of the contemporary world system. Thus, thereis little in the way of ethnography produced by nonarchaeologists that is readily

amenable to material study in the past. As a result, historical archaeologists are

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filling some of this void, an enterprise of interest to cultural anthropologists as

well as anthropological archaeologists, with cultural analyses and ethnographies

of how American culture makes “history.” Part of that history making is the prac-

tice of anthropological archaeology, but only part. Thus, the questions deemedsignificant in anthropological archaeology are but one source of what constitutes

significance in historical archaeology; significance also comes in the construction

of hegemonic and alternative understandings by historical archaeologists who are

participants as well as observers of the American way of life.

HISTORIES AND ARCHAEOLOGIES

Given the range of issues confronted by historical archaeology, why is therethe persistent sense that it is somehow lacking? I referred at the start to the pervasive

sense that historical archaeology is, in Barbara Little’s phrase, the junior varsity

of anthropological archaeologies (1994, p. 30). This sense also is found within

the field. In 1987, the Society for Historical Archaeology ran a plenary session

about the “Questions that Count in Historical Archaeology” (Honerkamp, 1988). A

general concern for the lack of theoretically significant contributions by historical

archaeologists was expressed by the distinguished presenters, captured explicitly

in Deagan’s (1988, p. 7) observation that “historical archaeology has not produced

the original and unparalleled insights into human cultural behavior or evolutionthat we might expect to result from the unique perspective and data base of the

field.” Various sources of difficulty were identified, including being trapped with

methodologies generated by prehistorians and limited for historical archaeology’s

documentary, oral, and material data base (Deagan, 1988), too great a concern with

description, especially in the name of particularism and the idiosyncratic, at the

expense of concern with enduring issues of culture process (Cleland, 1988; South,

1988), and an unwarranted sense of deference to anthropological archaeology and

history, characterized by Schuyler (1988, pp. 36–37) as the Pseudo-Processual

Progress Proffered by Prehistorians complex and the need to “stop trying to makeuncalled for offerings at the altar of Clio.” Remedies offered by all the authors

include making use of the unique data bases of historical archaeology and directing

attention to issues of broad anthropological concern (Leone, 1988a; Mrozowski,

1988). And yet these remedies are all directed toward celebrating some future,

rather than some past, contribution by historical archaeology.

Trigger (1984), Patterson (1995), and Kohl (1998) embed archaeological

theory within the context of Western culture, and their perspectives put the status

of historical archaeology in a different light. Trigger (1984, p. 616) distinguishes

different archaeologies, appropriate to the “roles that particular nation states play,economically, politically, and culturally, as interdependent parts of the modern

world-system.” One is the nationalist archaeology, whose primary function “is to

bolster the pride and morale of nations or ethnic groups” (p. 620). Colonialist

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archaeologies “by emphasizing the primitiveness and lack of accomplishments of

[colonized] peoples [seek] to justify their own poor treatment of them” (p. 620).

Imperialist archaeologies seek to understand and underpin why imperial power

has its worldwide sway. American archaeology began as a colonialist endeavorbut, with the advent of the New Archaeology, took on the characteristics of an

imperialist archaeology. “Its emphasis on nomothetic generalizations implies not

simply that the study of native American prehistory as an end in itself is trivial but

also that this is true of the investigation of any national tradition” (p. 620). Kohl’s

(1998) recent consideration of Trigger’s argument notes the variety of ways that

nation-states have used archaeology to underwrite their legitimacy, noting the wider

range of nationalist archaeologies than apparent in Trigger’s analysis. Seeking to

escape an involvement in politics by developing an archaeology that trivializes any

particular history seems, on the basis of the studies by Trigger, Patterson, and Kohl,unlikely to succeed. Rather, the move to trivializing national traditions seems to

be the ideological device of elevating the interest of a segment of world society to

the status of a universal as a means to hide the particularity of that segment’s point

of view (Miller and Tilley, 1984).

There is no explicit consideration of historical archaeology by Trigger; how-

ever, it does seem caught between an underdeveloped form of a nationalist

American archaeology and the dominant American imperialist anthropological

archaeology. Born in the strife of the 1960s, some of historical archaeology’s fas-

cination with the dramatic or beautiful “significant” places on the American histor-ical landscape represents a tendency towards being a handmaiden to a consensus

and nationalist history of the United States. But another outcome of the 1960s

is the critical tradition (Patterson, 1995, pp. 133–139) in historical archaeology,

which seeks to contest aspects of the consensus vision, out of populist impulses

that recognize the importance of common people, and out of more radical im-

pulses that seek to unmask ideologies of race, class, and gender consensus, or that

are dissatisfied with stories of national technological progress that ignore global

impoverishment. As if being caught between consensus and critical traditions of

history were not enough, historical archaeology also was born in the 1960s’ enthu-siasm for the New Archaeology, Trigger’s imperialist American archaeology that

trivializes concern with either version of a “local” history. No wonder it is difficult

for historical archaeologists to match aspirations with achievements.

The imperialist impulses in anthropological archaeology are facing a severe

test from an anti-colonialist, nationalist direction. NAGPRA has forced a conver-

sation with native peoples of the United States about access to the materials of

the North American past and the significance of an imperialist perspective for

their interpretation. Minimally, as Leone and Preucel (1992, p. 123) point out,

“Archaeologists have been markedly less effective in making their professionalinterests known to the public and to Native Americans.” Appeals to universal sci-

entific truths and universal benefits of education have failed to register with the

nationalist goals of Native Americans or with United States national institutions

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(McGuire, 1992a, p. 827; Spector, 1993). These conversations have led an increas-

ing number of archaeologists to seek to deimperialize and decolonize the discipline

(e.g., Handsman and Richmond, 1995; Leone and Preucel, 1992; McGuire, 1992a;

Rubertone, 1989; Schmidt and Patterson, 1995; Zimmerman, 1989), a move thatleads to the revaluation of the “local” history of the North American past.

In other words, American anthropological archaeology increasingly finds

itself caught in what has been historical archaeology’s dilemma, that of trying to

understand local history with perspectives that tend to trivialize such an endeavor

(Patterson, 1990, 1995; Ramenofsky, 1991; Trigger, 1989, 1991). Anthropological

archaeologists have increasingly turned attention to the issue of history (such as

at the 1997 Chacmool Conference on “The Entangled Past . . . Integrating History

and Archaeology”). The problem, in part, is making structuralist models of human

society take on a nonteleological diachronic dimension. Some approaches seek the parallels between biological and cultural evolution (e.g., Dunnell, 1980, 1982,

1989; Schiffer, 1996). Others have advocated the perspectives of Braudel and

the Annales school (e.g., Hodder, 1987; Knapp, 1992; Smith, 1992). And others

approach history within the broad parameters set by Marx’s (1984, p. 97) notion

that “men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they

do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances

directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past” (see also Kohl, 1987;

Marquardt, 1992; McGuire, 1992b; McGuire and Saitta, 1996; Patterson, 1995;

Saitta, 1989; Spriggs, 1984; Trigger, 1991).Feinman has been working on aspects of an archaeological history that bridges

between the idiosyncretism of the post-Processual archaeology and the universal-

ism of Processual archaeology (1994, 1997a,b). These differences often are con-

structed as the difference between science and history. However, he argues that

science and history are not necessarily diametrically opposite endeavors. Con-

ceived as an historical science, archaeology can take its place alongside other

historical sciences, such as evolutionary biology (Feinman, 1994, pp. 18–25). In

this, the goal is to “wind our way through particulars and specific sequences, while

not losing sight of general, comparative, and theoretical questions concerning cul-tural differences, similarities, and change” (Feinman, 1994, p. 19). Doing this

involves, among other tasks, writing particular histories for specific places, times,

and people while maintaining an interest in systemic processes, making use of

any relevant data without privileging texts over objects (or vice versa), eschew-

ing normative narratives by recognizing the ordered diversity of social life, and

structuring arguments so that ideas and data confront and constrain one another

(Feinman, 1997b).

These are sensible responses to the polemical debates of Processual and post-

Processual archaeologists (see also Trigger, 1991). In addition, critical archaeologysuggests extending these ideas to address the role of archaeology within our cul-

ture. For anthropological archaeology this point has been most acutely made in

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the contests between archaeologists and Native Americans over writing the Native

past. As noted above, the reemergence of the Native history of North America is

due in part to the contest between archaeologists and some Native nations over

the content and stewardship of this history (e.g., Deloria, 1992a,b; Wylie, 1992).McGuire (1992b) has ably chronicled this contest and detailed the role that archae-

ology has played in conservative and liberal theories concerning Native North

Americans (see also Patterson, 1995; Trigger, 1980, 1989). McGuire’s analysis

makes clear that regardless of intention, the results of anthropological archaeol-

ogy will be used within mainstream society as it continually comes to grip with the

legacy of conquest. It also makes clear that with few exceptions, archaeology has

gravitated to the liberal, noble savage position, a position with honor but, nonethe-

less, a position caught in the dialectic of noble and ignoble savages characteristic of

colonialist ideologies. A way out is to imagine a world of different social relations,of Native autonomy, of Native anticolonial nationalism. Regardless of what one

thinks of McGuire’s challenge (and I find it worth our attention), any attempt to

write, in theory or in particular, the history of Native North America will need to

recognize explicitly that it is inextricably caught in discourses about colonialism

and anticolonialism in the culture that is producing archaeology.

Trying to understand where archaeology fits within nationalist ideologies is

familiar terrain for historical archaeology. Historical archaeologists have taken

on the task of writing antitriumphalist histories that emphasize the role of social

relations as well as individuals, the common people as well as the prominent, thestruggles along class, color, and gender lines, and the emergent social and cultural

diversity of a supposedly uniform nation-state. To say that it is familiar terrain is

not to say that it has been solved. For instance, adding the anticolonialist histo-

ries to be written by anthropological archaeologists about resistant and persistent,

as well as vanquished, indigenous peoples would be a powerful synthesis. His-

torical and anthropological archaeologists have much in common in developing

epistemologies, theories, and methods to engage this important area of research.

A dynamic blending of the scientific abstraction of the New Archaeology with the

historical concerns of archaeologists who recognize their engagement in their ownculture would provide a salutary amalgamation in the Untied States and in other

archaeology-producing cultures around the globe.

In sum, historical archaeology and anthropological archaeology face many of

the same issues. Theorizing diverse forms of materiality (especially regarding the

methods and theories of landscapes), working on the epistemological problems

of using written documents as well as material objects, and studying the place of

archaeology in archaeology-making cultures are three areas of congruence. Most

important is the problem of devising disciplinary agreement on what constitutes

culture history. What standards of proof are relevant? What processes should begiven research priority? What questions are of pressing import? And, how do

answers fit into the various ways the past is used in the contemporary world?

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Insights from anthropological and historical archaeologies are needed to negotiate

these issues. A forthcoming review will investigate how historical archaeologists

have sought to develop an understanding of the post-Columbian world based in

the analysis of the formation of race, class, state, and gender relations.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks go to Marge Abel, Uzi Baram, Mark Bograd, Claire Carlson, Marta

Carlson, Liz Chilton, Jim Delle, Jim Garman, Rick Gumaer, Susan Hautaniemi,

Steve Himmer, Ed Hood, Ross Jamieson, David Lacy, Kerry Lynch, Patricia

Mangan, Ruth Mathis, Paul Mullins, Nancy Muller, Juliana Nairouz, Mike

Nassaney, Sacha Page, Richard Panchyk, Marlys Pearson, Rita Reinke, MaryRobison, Ellen Savulis, Marta Yolanda Quezada, and Dean Saitta. Thanks go, too,

to Martin Wobst, Dena Dincauze, Art Keene, Alan Swedlund, Helan Enoch Page,

Jackie Urla, Arturo Escobar, Warren Perry, Steve Mrozowski, Randy McGuire,

and Tom Patterson. I especially benefited from Gary Feinman and Doug Price’s

patience and sage advice.

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