Working in Small Areas: The Archaeology Of An Urban Backyard in St. Charles, Missouri
Author(s): Steve Dasovich
Year: 2018
Summary
Working in small, urban backyards is challenging due to often numerous ground disturbing activities. Often lurking between these disturbances, archaeological deposits can offer interesting and surprising glimpses of past activity. One backyard along Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri offers just such a glimpse that includes family life and dumping activity interpreted through 20th-Century children's toys and an unusually dense concentration of 19h-Century ceramics,
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Working in Small Areas: The Archaeology Of An Urban Backyard in St. Charles, Missouri. Steve Dasovich. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441144)
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Keywords
General
Ceramics
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Toys
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Urban
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Mid-19th- through early 20th- century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 110