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Success vs. Excess: The Historical Archaeology of Rural Outliers (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The topic of this paper explores material life and economic strategies among rural outliers, defined as rural households that were very successful economically. The examples in the paper are drawn from sites in the South and Midwest. The sites illustrate that for rural households, archaeologists...