Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake, edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 1994

This volume is a good attempt at presenting an overview of the land-based historical archaeology that has been on-going in the Chesapeake region over the last fifteen years. It brings together articles by academic. CRM. and public sector archaeologists. and includes work by both well established and promising young researchers focused on the Chesapeake region. The volume is organized into four thematic and chronologi­cal sections, covering time periods from the earliest European settlement of the region to the nineteneth century.