Contents
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Preface
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1: Introduction
Initial Visit to the Buxton Townsite
Preliminary Field Investigations, 1980
Preliminary Laboratory Analysis, 1980–1981
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
Reconnaissance Unit KP
Buxton Cemetery
Harris Property
5. Test Excavations and Investigation of Former Buildings
Excavation Methods and Procedures
The Stone Warehouse (Structure 1)
The Company Store (Structure 2)
The Company Office (Structure 3)
The Main YMCA (Structure 4)
The Boys’ YMCA (Structure 5)
Evidence for the Street Fronting the YMCA
The White House Hotel (Structure 6)
A Residence and Outbuildings (The Structure 7–10 Complex)
Residential Building (Structure 11)
Surface Indications of Unidentified Buildings (Structures 12–16)
The Power Plant (Structure 17)
Possible Remains of Armstrong’s Meat Market (Structure 18)
The Mine Superintendent’s House (Structures 22–24)
The Superintendent’s Outbuildings (Structural Complex 25)
Excavations at the South End of Site Survey Unit KP-3
6. Portable Artifacts from the Townsite
Ceramic Artifacts
Glass Artifacts
Metal Artifacts
Celluloid Artifacts
Shell Artifacts
Leather and Hair Artifacts
Paper Artifacts
Stone Artifacts
Artifacts of Miscellaneous Media
Artifacts of Composite Materials
Plant Remains
Animal Remains
7. Social and Cultural Patterns from an Archaeological Perspective
Making It: The Business, Commercial, and Occupational Enterprise
Home, Home by the Range: The Distaff and Domestic Domains
Getting Around: Transportation, Utilities, and Facilities
Having Fun: Recreation and Relaxation
Praying and Passing: Religious and Mortuary Patterns
Archaeological Extent and Quality of the Townsite
Regional and National Significance of Buxton
Buxton’s Settlement Pattern
Ethnicity in Buxton
What about Buxton as Utopia?
References Cited
Interviews
Index