The Use of Oral and Documentary Sources in Historical Archaeology: Ethnohistory at the Mott Farm

2019 ◽  
pp. 278-283
Author(s):  
Marley Brown
Keyword(s):  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Documentary Sources

Tudor Silver-Gilt Dress-hooks: A New Class of Treasure Find in England

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 157-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gaimster ◽  
Maria Hayward ◽  
David Mitchell ◽  
Karen Parker
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
New Class ◽  
Documentary Sources

This paper combines a study of the typological, technological and constructional attributes of a sample of fifteen dress-hooks and cap-hooks, reported between 1998 and 2000 under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996), with a survey of contemporary pictorial sources, probate inventories and associated wills along with a trawl of ‘small wares’ in the records of the Goldsmiths' Company in order to assess the role of these accessories in vernacular dress of sixteenth-century England.Of particular interest are questions of manufacture and design, followed by the questions of how these objects functioned in relation to the closure and decoration of dress, their noteworthiness in contemporary accounts, their social status, their ranking in the output of contemporary goldsmiths and whether there was a gender bias in terms of their ownership. This cross-examination of excavated finds with contemporary iconographie and documentary sources represents an interdisciplinary case study in historical archaeology.

Archaeological Context and Archival Content: Historical Archaeology and Medieval Period Donative Practices on the Raichur Doab, Southern India

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-55
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Basis

Definitions of ‘historical archaeology’ frequently imply the use of documentary sources to contextualise the archaeological record and aid interpretation of its content. In this article, I underscore the importance of a complementary process of using the archaeological record to enrich interpretations of epigraphical sources from the medieval Deccan. Going beyond others’ critical calls to evaluate how interpretations of these inscriptional sources are shaped by biases in research practices, I will suggest that the substantive content of politicised donative stelae on the Raichur Doab was related to shifting material contexts of agricultural land use and the dynamic assemblages of cultigens, soils and water that facilitated production during the period. By contextualising inscriptional records and donative practices within an archaeologically documented landscape of changing production activities, one has a stronger epistemological basis for evaluating the social and political significance of the inscriptional archive and the historiography that it affords. In this case, it allows for the re-evaluation of historiographical tropes of the Raichur Doab’s value as ‘fertile’ agricultural space and provides a richer interpretation of how newly emergent social relationships and distinctions evident in eleventh–sixteenth-century inscriptions articulated with landscape histories.

The Expansion, Frontiers and Historical Archaeology: A Field for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Itinerario ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Extract Information

The colonial states of Europe have left behind a record of their past not only in the documents relating to their overseas adventures but also in the objects they discarded or left behind. Although archaeology is usually thought of as a discipline concerned primarily with prehistory and ancient high civilizations, it is also useful in investigating the relatively recent expansion of European settlement, a process about which much is still unknown (1). In America archaeology has often been successfully employed in studying colonial societies in all stages of their development (2). Archaeology's ability to add to our knowledge about the past is based upon the extent to which its methodology can extract information comparable to that commonly gleaned from documentary sources. It would please me greatly if historians who had hitherto worked only with documents would begin to consider whether or not there exist archaeological possibilities in their study fields; though I realize that this could not be so in every instance.

scholarly journals Landscapes and Ethnicity: An Historical Archaeology of Khami-Phase Sites in Southwestern Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-675
Author(s):  
Lesley Hatipone Machiridza
Keyword(s):  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
First Time

Abstract Although numerous dry-stone-walled Khami-phase sites are scattered throughout southwestern Zimbabwe, their finer archaeological and historical credentials remain largely elusive. Deliberations of how several dynastic and ethnolinguistic formations that are historically linked to the rise and spread of these sites can be archaeologically defined also remain multiple and fragmentary. Correspondingly, in attempts to trace Rozvi ethnicity, a sample of three ancient Khami-phase capitals––Danamombe, Naletale, and Zinjanja––was scrutinized in the light of an agency landscape framework. For the first time, radiocarbon dates from these sites are compared with each other in order to assess the validity of oral traditions and documentary sources describing the Rozvi past.

From the history of the military past of composer and conductor Boris Galaev

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Felix S. Kireev
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time ◽  
First World

Boris Alexandrovich Galaev is known as an outstanding composer, folklorist, conductor, educator, musical and public figure. He has a great merit in the development of musical culture in South Ossetia. All the musical activity of B.A. Galaev is studied and analyzed in detail. In most of the biographies of B.A. Galaev about his participation in the First World War, there is only one proposal that he served in the army and was a bandmaster. For the first time in historiography the participation of B.A. Galaev is analyzed, and it is found out what positions he held, what awards he received, in which battles he participated. Based on the identified documentary sources, for the first time in historiography, it occured that B.A. Galaev was an active participant in the First World War on the Caucasian Front. He went on attacks, both on foot and horse formation, was in reconnaissance, maintained communication between units, received military awards. During this period, he did not have time to study his favorite music, since, according to the documents, he was constantly at the front, in the battle formations of the advanced units. He had to forget all this heroic past and tried not to mention it ever after. Therefore, this period of his life was not studied by the researchers of his biography. For writing this work, the author uses the Highest Orders on the Ranks of the Military and the materials of the Russian State Military Historical Archive (RSMHA).

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