French Colonial Archaeology

       This wide-ranging book is the first to offer---in one volume---detailed         results of many of the investigations of French colonial sites made in         the mid-continent during the last decade. It includes work done at Fort         St. Louis, Fort de Chartres, Fort Massac, French Peoria, Cahokia, Prairie         du Pont, Prairie du Rocher, and other locations controlled by the French         during a time when their dominance in North America was more than twice         that of Britain and Spain combined.       Five of the book's fifteen chapters summarize major excavations at colonial         fortifications, four of which are public monuments that currently attract         thousands of visitors each year. Another five chapters deal with French         colonial villages, and the remainder of the book is devoted to diet, trade,         the role of historic documents in the reconstruction of life on the French         colonial frontier, and other topics.