In this Book
- Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population
- Book
- 1990
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Bur Oak Books
summary
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.
David Gradwohl and Nancy Osborn present the archaeology of Buxton from “the group up” to articulate the material remains with the data acquired from archival studies and oral history interviews. They also examine the broader significance of the Buxton experience in terms of those who lived there and their children and grandchildren who have heard about Buxton all their lives.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- 1: Introduction
- pp. 2-7
- 2: Scone and schedule
- pp. 8-16
- 6: Portable artifacts from the townsite
- pp. 123-164
- References cited
- pp. 196-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9781587296659
Related ISBN(s)
9781587295744
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
607670344
Pages
223
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1984