Mary C. Beaudry

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question.

TL;DR: The question arose as the discipline sought to develop recommendations for investments in computational infrastructure that would enable the discipline to address its most compelling questions: what are archaeology’s most important scientific challenges?

TL;DR: The place of historical archaeology in the wider discipline of history has been discussed in detail in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the main themes in historical archaeological research, focusing on the following: 1. Archaeology and history: 2. Documentary archaeology Laurie Wilkie 3. Historical archaeology and time Gavin Lucas 4.

TL;DR: In this paper, the full text of this book is not available in ORA, but it can be found in the Oxford University Press (OUP) database (http://www.oxforduniversity.edu.

TL;DR: In this paper, Yentsch et al. discuss the relationship between material culture and American ideology and argue that artifacts are not enough to understand the evolution of material culture in colonial America.