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Antczak's theoretical approach to seafarer-thing relationships becomes more succinctly articulated in archaeology-forward chapters later in the book. The fourth chapter focuses on the seafarers who camped and worked on the saltpan sites of La Tortuga and Cayo Sal. The book achieves much more than a comparative site-based analysis of seafarer-thing relations at saltpan camps. [Extracted from the article]

The final two chapters offer a summary of the events that have occurred in Boonesborough since the town failed, the subsequent preservation of the site, and O'Malley's conclusions. O'Malley uses the final chapter to summarize the oral, historical, and archaeological evidence and create a single cohesive narrative about what life was like for the early settlers of Boonesborough. Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort: Nancy O'Malley, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2019. [Extracted from the article]

Sarcina engages with ideas and methods of public archaeology by showing his training of local stakeholders to work together during the project. The archaeological potential of southern Central America's colonial period is strong, as we learn from Alberto Sarcina in this book based on his doctoral dissertation work. Sarcina refers to archaeological work previously conducted (somewhat bizarrely) by the former king of Belgium Leopold III in 1956, as well as the more substantial work by Colombian scholar Arcila Vélez between 1948 and 1977. [Extracted from the article]

Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World: Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 2018, 419 pp Travelling to Mauritius and East Africa with a short excursion to Western Australia, each chapter makes credible connections to a broader "Indian Ocean world" although the research presented is generally site specific. Staying in East Africa, Paul Lane in chapter six notes the nascent interest in post-1500 CE historical archaeology in East Africa where the "Golden Age of the Swahili" is more intensively studied. [Extracted from the article]