Historical Archaeology in a Nutshell

Historical Archaeology in a Nutshell is a textbook for students studying historical archaeology for the first time.

The book presents historical archaeology’s contribution to understanding the world in a series of bite-sized, topic-specific, and intellectually contextualized chapters that do not presuppose much prior knowledge of archaeology. Each chapter covers a theme commonly explored by historical archaeologists such as identity, race and racialization, colonization and Indigenous people...