Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender

“A truly creative, rigorous, and novel interdisciplinary collection that rethinks some of historical archaeology’s most fundamental questions.”—Paul Mullins, Indiana University–Purdue University

The division of human society by race, class, and gender has been addressed by scholars in many of the social sciences. Now historical archaeologists are demonstrating how material culture can be used to examine the processes that have erected boundaries between people.

Drawing on case studies from ar...