Artifacts that Enlighten: The Ordinary and the Unexpected - Paperback

by Linda Stone (Editor), Barbara J. Heath (Editor), Patricia M. Samford (Editor)

Most of the artifacts archaeologists uncover are utilitarian and mundane. However, artifacts are sometimes recovered that provide a surprising narrative or present an interpretive conundrum. The articles in this volume share eleven stories of artifacts that enlighten, presenting artifacts of varying types, locales, and periods with engaging stories that illuminate the ways in which historical archaeologists encounter and interpret the past through material things.