Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Barton, Christopher P. (2025).

  “Protection, Perseverance, and Power: Landscapes at Jamestown, a Postbellum Black Community in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina.”

  International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-025-00782-w

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• Barton, Christopher P., & Guy Weston (2023).

  “Self, Service, and Social Activism: Community Archaeology at Timbuctoo, New Jersey.”

  International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 28: 237–250.

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• Barton, Christopher P. (2023).

  “The Classroom and Beyond: Archaeology, Activism, and Engagement in Higher Education.”

  Historical Archaeology, 57: 823–827.

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• Edwards, Erica Johnson, Christopher P. Barton, & Kiley Molinari (2023).

  “Broadening Our Horizons: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Student Collaboration at Francis Marion University.”

  Historical Archaeology, 57: 873–884.

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• Barton, Christopher P. (2022).

  “Race and Reconciliation: Public Archaeology and History in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina.”

  The SAA Archaeological Record, 22(2): 22–26.

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• Barton, Christopher P. (2021).

  “Perseverance, Resistance, and Community: An Introduction to the Archaeology, Heritage, and History of Great Blasket, Co Kerry, Ireland.”

  New Hibernia Review, 25(4): 11–133.

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• Barton, Christopher P., & Kyle Somerville (2018).

  “Sets and Sensibilities: The Excavation of Ideology in Upstate New York.”

  Northeast Historical Archaeology, 46: 148–163.

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• Barton, Christopher P., & Kyle Somerville (2013).

  “‘A steppingstone of civilization’: The Hojack Swing Bridge and Structures of Power in Monroe County, Western New York State.”

  Industrial Archaeology Review, 34(2): 103–114.

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• Barton, Christopher P. (2012).

  “Tacking Between Black and White: The Archaeology of Race Relations in Gilded Age Philadelphia.”

  International Journal of Historical Archaeology (Special Issue: Gilded Age Archaeologies), 16(4): 634–650.

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• Barton, Christopher P., & Patricia Markert (2012).

       “Collaborative Archaeology, Oral History and Social Memory at Timbuctoo, NJ.”

• Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 1(1): 79–102.

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• Barton, Christopher P., & Kyle Somerville (2012).

  “Play Things: Racialized Mechanical Banks and Toys of the Victorian Era.”

  International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 16(1): 47–85.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• Barton, Christopher P. (2021).

  “Introduction.” In Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, edited by Christopher P. Barton, 1–19. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

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• Barton, Christopher P. (2021).

  “Race and Play: Toys and the Socialization of Children into Racial Ideologies.” In Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, edited by Christopher P. Barton, 132–145. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

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• Barton, Christopher P. (2017).

  “‘Stretching the Soup with a Little Bit of Water:’ The Relationships of Race, Class, and Food at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, NJ.” In Archaeologies of African American Life in the Mid-Atlantic, edited by Richard Veit and Michael Gall, 130–141. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

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• Barton, Christopher P., & David G. Orr (2015).

  “A Practice Theory of Improvisation at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, Burlington County, New Jersey.” In Race in Northeast Historical Archaeology, edited by Christopher N. Matthews and Allison McGovern, 198–214. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

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• Barton, Christopher P. (2014).

  “It Takes a Village: Archaeology at the African American Community of Timbuctoo.” In Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600–1850, edited by Richard Veit and David G. Orr, 375–392. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.