Handbook on Soil Resistivity Surveying by C. CarrReview by: D. J. HuntleyCanadian Journal of Archaeology / Journal Canadien d’Archéologie, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1984), p. 91Published by: Canadian Archaeological AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41102300 .

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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY Vol. 8 (No. 1) 1984 91

made old mistakes difficult to correct, particularly in regard to pressed glass. There is plenty of evidence (from newspaper advertisements) that English

pressed glass was being imported into Canada at the same time as the American was available here. McNally's caution in attributions ("Possibly American" for figure 1 1 1 , for example) is reassuring. Too many Canadian collections, public and private, still label much pressed glass confidently as American when, for at least a good percentage of it, the possibility of an English derivation should be con- sidered.

McNally made his selection of artifacts not with the aim of showing every type found on the sites (an impossibility in any case in a brief study) but from the point of view of illustrating either the typical wares excavated or the history of glass manufacture and style or both. Using these objects, the defined purpose of the report was to supplement the general history of glass "for the peculiar needs of Canadian historic sites archaeologists" and to advance hypotheses about the trade in table glass and its use in Canada during a century and a half.

For a fuller understanding of the trade in glass a consideration of what can be gleaned from documents and (from the second half of the 18th century) what Canadian newspaper advertisements indicate would, of course, be necessary, but this study, concerned with the archaeological aspect only, is an important contri- bution. To add to its usefulness, there is a summary of glass manufacture and decoration, a glossary of glass terms, and a bibliography.

Elizabeth Collard, Ottawa, Ontario

Handbook on Soil Resistivity Surveying. C. Carr. Center for American Archaeology Press, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A. 676 pp.

Warning! The purpose of this review is to warn you that this book is not what the title proclaims. Much of the existing literature and all but one of the sets of standard curves are not even mentioned. The title is, at best, misleading.

What is in the book is a tedious description of archaeology, soil chemistry and resistivity surveying at one particular site, the Crane site, in Illinois. The book is devoted to the hypothesis that resistivity surveying can be used to locate, charac- terize and distinguish different kinds of use areas within an archaeological site, and the results are sufficiently well buried that one must wade through hundreds of pages to find out what they are.

D. J. Huntley, Simon Fraser University

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