Exploring buried Buxton: archaeology of an abandoned Iowa coal mining town with a large black population
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Main Author: Gradwohl, David M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ames Iowa State University Press 1984
Edition:1st ed
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199) and index
Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 2. Scope and Schedule of Archaeological Investigations; Initial Visit to the Buxton Townsite; Preliminary Field Investigations, 1980; Preliminary Laboratory Analysis, 1980-1981; Planning the Internship Program; The 1981 Field Season; Continuing Laboratory Work, 1981-1982; 3: Buxton's Setting: Geography, Economic Geology, and Town Planning; 4: Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Townsite; Reconnaissance Unit B; Reconnaissance Unit KC; Reconnaissance Unit J; Reconnaissance Unit C; Carlson Property; Reconnaissance Unit KP.
Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of African American settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in detail the archaeological investigations conducted at the town site of Buxton, Iowa, a coal mining community inhabited by a significantly large population of blacks between 1900 and 1925
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 207 pages)
ISBN:081380244X
1587296659
9780813802442
9781587296659

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