Lines That Divide : The University of Tennessee Press : 9781572332669 : 1572332662 : 01 Mar 2003 : "A truly creative, rigorous, and novel interdisciplinary collection that rethinks some of historical archaeology's most fundamental questions."-Paul Mullins, Indiana University-Purdue University The division of human society by race, class, and gender has been addressed by scholars in many of the social sciences. Now historical archaeologists are demonstrating how material culture can be used to examine the processes that have erected boundaries between people. Drawing on case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume highlight diverse moments in the rise of capitalist civilization both in Western Europe and its colonies. In the first section, the contributors address the dynamics of the racial system that emerged from European colonialism. They show how archaeological remains shed light on the institution of slavery in the American Southeast, on the treatment of Native A