"Originated with a session entitled 'Methodology in historical archaeology : current research and critical perspectives' organized for the 2004 meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology in Saint Louis, Missouri"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Considering methods and methodology in historical archaeology / Steven N. Archer and Kevin M. Bartoy -- Pipemakers and their workshops : the use of geochemical analysis in the study of the clay tobacco pipe industry / Alan Vince and Alan Peacey -- The integration of historical cartographic data within the GIS environment / Scott Madry -- Saloons in the wild West and taverns in Mesopotamia : explorations along the timeline of public drinking / Kelly J. Dixon -- The life and death of a home : house history in a subsurface feature / Steven N. Archer, Kevin M. Bartoy and Charlotte L. Pearson -- Alternatives to traditional models for the classification and analysis of pipes of the early colonial Chesapeake / Anna S. Agbe-Davies -- Archaeology and the ethics of scientific destruction / Edward C. Harris -- Finding common ground in common places : interdisciplinary methods for analyzing historic architecture on archaeological sites / Bonnie J. Clark and Kathleen Corbett -- Re-excavation, reflexivity and responsibility at Colonial Williamsburg : the archaeology of archaeology and the refinement of site interpretation / Marley R. Brown III and Andrew C. Edwards -- Excavating sites unseen : the example of earthfast buildings in the colonial Chesapeake / Mark Kostro -- "Ponying up to Billy Hurst's saloon": the testing and evaluation of nineteenth- and twentieth-century archaeological deposits through less invasive techniques in Yosemite National Park, California / Kevin M. Bartoy, John Holson and Hannah Ballard -- Methodology, materiality and the endless sea of archaeology / Kevin M. Bartoy and Steven N. Archer.