"There were a total of 1,310 artifacts collected from this site. Five major categories of items include: 1) ceramic goods, 2) glass vessels, 3) metal, 4) faunal materials, and 5) leather goods. These artifacts include a variety of goods that express the lives of both the prisoners and their guards" (p. 5).
Urwin, Gregory J.W. (2004). Black flag over Dixie: Racial atrocities and reprisals in the Civil War. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
According to this source, archaeological finds in the area of Fort Pillow in Henning, Tennessee including large caches of alcohol, and the author speculates that drunkenness among the troops, who were provided a daily ration comparable to the British Navy's grog, may have contributed to the fall of the fort.
3. Current Trends in Civil War Archaeology.
Foster, Gaines M. (2004). Beyond the battlefield: Race, memory, and the American Civil War. Journal of Southern History, 70(2), 451.
This author suggests that because the archaeological record of the Civil War remains incomplete, there must be a reevaluation of the importance of the Confederate's role in shaping contemporary American memory of the conflict.
Merryman, John Henry. (1986). Two ways of thinking about cultural property. American Journal of International Law, 80(4), 831.
An increasingly popular view among historical archaeologists today is to interpret artifacts in terms of their being cultural property, in other words, "objects of artistic, archaeological, ethnological or historical interest as components of a common human culture, whatever their places of origin or present location, independent of property rights or national jurisdiction" (p. 831).
Odell, George H. (2001). Research problems R. us. American Antiquity, 66(4), 679.
Categorizing archaeological studies in general is difficult because some works make contributions to archaeological theory while also telling a story: "And if we wish our discipline to endure, it is incumbent upon us to do both" (p. 679).
He admonishes contemporary African-Americans to look into the teachings and culture of the ancient Egyptians for inspiration. Carruthers goes into "The Instructions of Ptahhotep" which contained maxims to instruct in the correct values, modes of behavior and attitudes appropriate to those who would become civil servants from Prime Minister on down. The pharaohs, he speculates, received this teaching alongside children from all walks of life to instruct them on how
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