Investigating the Ordinary: Everyday Matters in Southeast Archaeology

Shifting the focus to everyday life in the archaeology of the Southeast US

Focusing on the daily concerns, activities, and routine events of people in the past, Investigating the Ordinary argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologists operate and urges them to think of the archaeological record in new ways. Instead of dividing archaeological work by time periods or artifact types, the essays in this volume unite separate areas of research through the theme of the everyday...