Exploring buried Buxton : archaeology of an abandoned Iowa coal mining town with a large black population

Exploring buried Buxton : archaeology of an abandoned Iowa coal mining town with a large black population / David M. Gradwohl and Nancy M. Osborn.

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 l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gradwohl, David M., 1934-2022
Other Authors: Osborn, Nancy M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1984.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
African Americans > Iowa > Buxton > Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Iowa > Buxton.
Ghost towns > Iowa > Buxton.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
African Americans > Antiquities
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Ghost towns
Buxton (Iowa) > Antiquities.
Iowa > Buxton
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Table of Contents:
  • Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 2. Scope and Schedule of Archaeological Investigations; Initial Visit to the Buxton Townsite; Preliminary Field Investigations, 1980; Preliminary Laboratory Analysis, 1980-1981; Planning the Internship Program; 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; Carlson Property; Reconnaissance Unit KP.

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