AR241 – Historical Archaeology of North America, 1500-1900

• The Library Literature Search

Library of Congress Classification (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ )

• C class = Auxiliary Sciences of History
o CC = Archaeology
CC77 = Special types of archaeology
• CC77.H5 = Historical archaeology
Note: The History classes - D – F - follow:
• E= American history
• FC = Canadian history

TRELLIS Search

TRELLIS Result (1 of 57)

Note: The Call Number consists of Subject number (CC77.H5) + Author number (L58 = author ‘Little’)

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) : The language of the library catalogue
• Tip: Do a keyword search (or phrase), and check results for LCSH.

Lib of Congress Subject Headings

Note: Most books have more than one
heading to describe the content. The
additional headings might also prove
useful for searching your topic. Also,
there are four specific headings that
indicate an archaelogical focus:
• Archaeology (main subject heading)
• Excavations (main subject heading, as in: Excavations (Archaeology) – Ontario – Woodbridge)
• Site Or sites (main subject heading, attached to name of site, as in: Boyd site (Ont.) or as
Historic sites
• Antiquities (subject sub-heading, as in: Woodbridge (Ont.) – Antiquities)
Notes
• “any of these” = OR logic, i.e., same category of terms
• question mark (?) in TRELLIS = truncation symbol: site? = site OR sites

‘Periodicals’ = subject sub-heading

Note: This is the assigned subject heading

But note the following subject headings:

• E = American history
• Available in paper only (4th floor)
Searching Indexes for Journal Articles
All areas of knowledge have their own indexes to their research literature. So, first, identify
appropriate indexes.

Library Home Page > Find Articles and More > Articles by subject > Archaeology

There are several databases you can search, but one is:

Notes:
• It is necessary here to type the OR logic operator
• AND logic is defaulted between each line of search boxes; almost never will you change this
• The asterisk ( * ) is the truncation symbol in most databases (though not TRELLIS)

Limiting the search

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Click on get it! Laurier to determine availability of Urban History Review, volume 35, issue 1, published in
2006.