Bibliograph

Buried beneath the city, an archaeological history of New York, Nan A. Rothschild, Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica Striebel Maclean

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Buried beneath the city, an archaeological history of New York, Nan A. Rothschild, Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica Striebel Maclean

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-284) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Buried beneath the city

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1251503167

Responsibility statement

Nan A. Rothschild, Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica Striebel Maclean

Sub title

an archaeological history of New York

Summary

"Bits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Pottery shards dating to 600 CE, wine jugs from the Dutch taverns around City Hall, a child's shoe from the Black settlement in Central Park called Seneca Village, raspberry and rhododendron seeds sown in backyard Brooklyn gardens-these everyday objects are windows into the city's forgotten history. Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts, from the first traces of Indigenous societies more than ten thousand years ago to the detritus of Dutch and English colonization and through to the burgeoning city's transformation into the modern metropolis. It demonstrates how the archaeological record goes beyond written history by preserving mundane things-details of everyday life that are beneath the notice of the documentary record. These artifacts reveal the density, diversity, and creativity of a city perpetually tearing up its foundations to rebuild itself. Lavishly illustrated with images of objects excavated in the city, Buried Beneath the City is at once an archaeological history of New York City and an introduction to urban archaeology"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Indigenous Peoples Before the City -- Dutch Beginnings, 1624-1664 -- The British Colonial City and the Nascent Republic, 1664-1800 -- Growing Pains, 1800-1840 -- Development of the Modern City, 1840-1898

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Archaeological history of New York

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