Students are required to read all of the following sources. All readings will be provided as PDF files and enrolled students will have access through the IFR.  [**]=Main focus of seminar discussion, [R]=Reference source (to be read once and then used as reference for artifact types, etc.

For Week 1:  Project Background and General Analytical Techniques in Historical Archaeology

• [**] Cipolla, C. N. (2016) Remaking Archaeology: Decolonizing Indigenous-Colonial Histories through Mohegan Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology, Excerpt of Wenner Gren grant (13 pages)
• [R] Hume, I. N. (1996) Ceramics: British. In A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America, pp. 102-137 (35 pages).
• [R] South, S. (1971) Evolution and Horizon as Revealed in Ceramic Analysis in Historical Archaeology. Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 6(1): 71-116 (45 pages).
• [R] Harrington, J.C. (1954) Dating Stem Fragments of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Clay Tobacco Pipes. Quarterly Bulletin, Archaeological Society of Virginia 9(1)(3 pages).
• [R] Maxwell, M.A., and Binford L.H. (1961) Excavations at Fort Machilimackinac, Mackinac City, Michigan, 1959 Season, pp. 107-109.

For Week 2: Native American Historical Archaeology

• [**] Cipolla, C. N. (2013) Native American Historical Archaeology and the Trope of Authenticity. Historical Archaeology 47(3): 12-22 (10 pages)

For Week 3: Critiques of Indigenous Archaeology

• [**] McGhee, R. (2008) Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archaeology. American Antiquity 73(4): 579-597 (18 pages).                

For Week 4: Decolonizing Archaeology in Practice

• [**] Cipolla, C.N. and J. Quinn (2016) Archaeology the Mohegan Way. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage 3(2): 118-134 (16 pages).
• [**] Silliman, S. W., and K. Sebastian Dring (2006) Working on Pasts for Futures: Eastern Pequot Field School Archaeology in Connecticut. In Collaborating at the Trowel’s Edge. S W. Silliman, ed. Pp. 67-87. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (20 pages).
• [R] Bendremer, J., and E. Thomas (2006) The Tribe and the Trowel: An Indigenous Archaeology and the Mohegan Archaeological Field School. In Collaborating at the Trowel’s Edge. S W. Silliman, ed. Pp. 50-66. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (16 pages).

For Week 5: Decolonizing Archaeology in Theory

•  [**] McNiven, I. (2016) Theoretical Challenges of Indigenous Archaeology: Setting an Agenda. American Antiquity 81(1): 27-41.
• [R] Atalay, S. (2006) No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI. American Indian Quarterly 30 (3-4): 597-618 (21 pages).

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2008   Signs of identity, signs of memory. Archaeological Dialogues 15(2): 196–215.

2013   Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World. U niversity of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2017   Foreign Objects: Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American Archaelogy. Univeristy of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Cipolla, Craig N., and Katherine H. Hayes, eds. 2015    Rethinking Colonialism: Comparative Archaeological Approaches. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Cipolla, Craig N., Stephen W. Silliman, and David B. Landon 2007   'Making do': Nineteenth-century subsistence practices on the Eastern Pequot Reservation. Northeast Anthropology 74: 41–64.

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1983   Spanish St. Augustine: The Archaeology of a Colonial Creole Community. University Press Florida, Gainesville.

1998   Tranculturation and Spanish American Ethnogenesis: The Archaeological Legacy of the Quincenetery. In Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick, pp. 23–43. Center of Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

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1990   The Historical Archaeology of the Mashantucket Pequot. In The Pequots: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation, edited by Laurence Hauptman and James Wherry, pp. 96-116. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

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1994   Cultures in Transition: The Eastern Long Island Sound Culture Area in the Prehistoric and Contact Periods. Journal of Connecticut History 35(1): 5-21.

1996   The Legend of Robin Cassacinamon: Mashantucket Leadership in the Historic Period. In Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816, edited by Robert Grumet, pp. 74-93. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.

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1970   Cultural Inferences from Faunal Remains: Examples from Three Northeastern Coastal Sites. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 40(1&2): 1-8.

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2009   Change and Continuity, Practice and Memory: Native American Persistence in Colonial New England. American Antiquity 74(2): 211–230.

2010   Indigenous traces in colonial spaces: Archaeologies of ambiguity, origin, and practice. Journal of Social Archaeology 10(1): 28–58.

2011   Households, Time, and Practice: A Reply to Vitelli. American Antiquity 76(1): 190-192.

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Voss, Barbara L. 2008   The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Voss, Barbara L., and Eleanor Conlin Casella (editors) 2011   The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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