December 1997
Articles, Essays, and Reports
Slavery and Consumerism: A Case Study from Central Virginia
Barbara J. Heath
Excavations at U. S. Grant National Historic Site
Leslie "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy
African-American Archaeology at Stratford Hall Plantation, Virginia
Douglas W. Sanford
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Barbara Heath
Current Research at Monticello
Fraser Neiman and Leslie McFaden
Preliminary Results: Excavations at a Slave/Tenant Cabin at the Blythewood Plantation
David T. Palmer
Caribbean Notes
Paul Farnsworth
News and Announcements
Announcements
Book Reviews
Lay Down Body: Living History in African American Cemeteries
Roberta Hughes Wright and Wilber B. Hughes
The Archaeology of Africa: Food Metals, and Towns. One World Archaeology Volume 20
Thurston Shaw, Paul Sinclair, Bassy Andah, and Alex Okpoko
Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775
Richard B. Sheridan and John P. McCarthy
Religion in Africa
Thomas D. Blakely, Walter E.A. Van Beek, and Dennis L. Thomson