More recent trends focus on collaborations across interest groups. Past debates questioned whether primary emphasis should be on heritage recording or on archaeological research questions. Investigations often range from microscopic analysis of product constituents to large-scale, three-dimensional recording of locations and features with high-resolution laser technologies. All of these perspectives can be pursued with significant advances in research and curation methods. With many sites presenting standing ruins, historians and archaeologists often encounter local stakeholder groups who wish to promote heritage themes and tourism potentials.
Many analysts look away from the buildings and equipment of the workplace and focus instead on the workers, their families, residences, lifeways, and health experiences. Others examine comparative questions of changes of technologies over time and space. Some limit their efforts to recording, mapping, and studying the mechanics of a site.
Research focused on industrial enterprises traverses a spectrum of perspectives. This book provides an overview of the archaeology of American craft and industrial enterprises, outlines developments in theories, research questions, and interpretative frameworks, and presents case studies from a wide range of subjects. Locations of remarkable energy, tumult, and creativity now stand silent. Archaeologists investigating sites of craft and industrial enterprise often puzzle over a domain of bewildering ruins.
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