Shovel ready archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America / edited by Bernard K. Means. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : "alphabet soup" and American archaeology / The first stimulus package : the WPA and the New Jersey Indian Site Survey / Historical archaeology's "New Deal" in Pennsylvania / Archaeologist #.00000000000000000 : Edgar E. Augustine and New Deal excavations in the Great Depression begets a great expansion : field museum anthropology, 1929-1941 / Project 1047 : New Deal archaeology in Iowa / The last of WPA archaeology in Oklahoma : the Clement and McDonald sites / Trouble in the glen : the battle over Kentucky Lake archaeology / WPA archaeology at the Slayden Site, Humphreys County, Tennessee / Culture, time, and practice : the shifting interpretive potential of New Deal era collections / New Deal archaeology in west-central Kentucky : excavations at Annis Village / Preston Holder's WPA excavations in Glynn and Chatham counties, Georgia -- 1936-1938 / The Resettlement Administration and the historical archaeology of the Georgia Piedmont / Conclusion : shovels at the ready : work relief and American archaeology, today and tomorrow / Brnard K. Means -- Gregory D. Lattanzi -- Janet R. Johnson -- Stephen E. Nash -- John F. Doershuk and John L. Cordell -- Amanda L. Regnier, Patrick C. Livingood, and Scott W. Hammerstedt -- David H. Dye -- Anna R. Lunn -- Sissel Schroeder -- Scott W. Hammerstedt -- Kevin Kiernan -- James R. Wettstaed -- Bernard K. Means.



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United States. Work Projects Administration.
United States. Civilian Conservation Corp.


Archaeology and state--History--United States--20th century.
Archaeology--History--United States--20th century.
Historic preservation--History--United States--20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.


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CC101 / .S568 2013