..., the Chickahominy River Survey, and excavations at the Powhatan town of Kiskiak. Previous research in the region, summarized in this chapter, sets the stage for a deep historical anthropology of landscape that crosses the historic / precolonial divide. Chapter 1 closes by summarizing the remainder of the book...

...The application of a comparative approach in Spanish colonial archaeology is a vital, but infrequent, enterprise that strengthens the historical anthropology of Western imperialism. This chapter compares early Spanish and Anglo-American colonialism in the Marianas and Hawaiian islands. Because...

...This chapter provides an overview of landscape studies in archaeology, particularly as practiced in the southeastern United States. There is an extended discussion justifying historical anthropology as an important point of departure for this study, in particular because of its usefulness...