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From ‘questions that count’ to stories that ‘matter’ in Historical Archaeology - Mark D. Groover. An archaeological study of rural capitalism and material life: the Gibbs farmstead in southern Appalachia, 1790-1920. xix+320 pages, 105 figures, 31 tables. 2003. New York (NY): Kluwer Academic / Plenum; 0-306-47502-2 hardback $130, 0-306-47773-4 paperback $60. - Chris Dalglish. Rural society in the Age of Reason: an archaeology of the emergence of Modern life in the southern Scottish Highlands. xi+257 pages, 16 figures. 2003. New York (NY): Kluwer Academic / Plenum; 0-306-47725-4 hardback $96, 0-306-47772-6 paperback $48. - Susan Lawrence (ed.). Archaeologies of the British: explorations of identity in Great Britain and its colonies, 1600-1945. xiii+306 pages, 62 figures, 8 tables. 2003. London: Routledge; 0-415-21700-8 hardback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Dan Hicks
Dan Hicks*
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Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, England
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 302 , December 2004 , pp. 934 - 939
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