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Silliman, Stephen W.

2008

Collaborating at the Trowel’s Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology. (editor) Tucson: University of Arizona Press and the Amerind Foundation, in press.

2008 Blurring for Clarity: Archaeology as Hybrid Practice. In Decolonizing Archaeology: Archaeology and the Post-Colonial Critique. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Chacmool Conference (2006). Calgary: Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, in press.

2008 The 'Old West' in the Middle East: U.S. Military Metaphors in Real and Imagined Indian Country. American Anthropologist 110(2), in press.

Silliman, Stephen W. and Katherine H. Sebastian Dring
2008 Working on Pasts for Future: Eastern Pequot Field School Archaeology in Connecticut. In Collaboration at the Trowel’s Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology, edited by Stephen W. Silliman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press and the Amerind Foundation, in press.

Hall, Martin and Stephen W. Silliman
2006 Historical Archaeology. (editors) Malden and London: Blackwell Publishing.

2006 Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World. In Historical Archaeology, edited by Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman, pp. 1-22. Malden and London: Blackwell Publishing. (Chapter)

Silliman, Stephen W.
2006 Collaborating on Collaboration: Results of the 2005 Amerind Seminar on Indigenous Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record 6(2):38-39. (Article)

2006 Struggling with Labor, Working on Identities. In Historical Archaeology, edited by Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman, pp. 147-166. Malden and London: Blackwell Publishing. (Chapter)

2005 Culture Contact or Colonialism? Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America. American Antiquity 70(1):55-74. (Article)

2005 Obsidian Studies and the Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century California. Journal of Field Archaeology 30(1):75-94. (Article)

2004 Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.(Publisher Page, Excerpt)

2004 Missions Aborted: California Indian Life on 19th-Century Ranchos, 1834-1848. Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association 21(1):3-22. (Article)

2004 Social and Physical Landscapes of Contact. In North American Archaeology, edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Diana DiPaolo Loren, pp. 273-296. London and Malden: Blackwell Publishing. (Chapter)

2003 Using a Rock in a Hard Place: Native American Lithic Practices in Colonial California. In Stone Tool Traditions in the Contact Era, edited by Charles Cobb, pp. 127-150. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

2001 Agency, Practical Politics, and the Archaeology of Culture Contact. Journal of Social Archaeology 1(2):184-204. (Article)

2001 Theoretical Perspectives on Labor and Colonialism: Reconsidering the California Missions. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 20(4):379-407. (Article)

Silliman, Stephen W., Paul Farnsworth, and Kent G. Lightfoot
2000 Magnetometer Prospecting in Historical Archaeology: Evaluating Survey Options at a 19th-Century Rancho Site in California. Historical Archaeology 34(2):89-109. (Article)

Silliman, Stephen W.
1997 European Origins and Native Destinations: Historical Artifacts from the Native Alaskan Village and Fort Ross Beach Sites. In The Native Alaskan Neighborhood, A Multiethnic Community at Colony Ross, edited by Kent G. Lightfoot, Ann M. Schiff, and Thomas A. Wake, pp. 136-178. Contribution of the Archaeological Research Facility 55. Berkeley: Archaeological Research Facility, University of California.

 

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