Description: Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal alterations. Sivilich asks--and answers--a variety of questions to demonstrate how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site: Was it fired? What did it hit? What type of gun is it associated with? Has it been chewed, and if so, by whom or what? Was it hammered into gaming pieces?
Brief description: Daniel M. Sivilich is a battlefield archaeologist with more than thirty years' experience in the field. He has authored numerous scholarly and popular articles on Revolutionary War-era historical archaeology.
Review Quotes: "Daniel M. Sivilich's Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guideis the result of twenty-eight years of research and collaboration. The Guide is an essential reference for any archaeologist studying eighteenth-century battlefields."--Garry Wheeler Stone, historian (retired) for Monmouth Battlefield State Park