Unearthing Gotham The Archaeology of New York City

Name: Unearthing Gotham The Archaeology of New York City
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ISBN: 9780300097993

ISBN-10: 0300097999

ISBN-13: 9780300097993

Edition: 2003

Authors: Anne-Marie Cantwell, Diana diZerega Wall, Diana diZerega Wall

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.70" wide x 0.94" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Anne-Marie Cantwell is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University.

Diana diZerega Wall is associate professor of anthropology at the City College of New York.



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Archaeology of New York City



Digging in New York



The Deeper Past



The Creation of the World: The Paleoindian Period, 11,000-10,000 B.P.



Settling Down in the Archaic, 10,000-3,700 B.P.



Funerary Pyres on Long Island: The Transitional, 3,700-2,700 B.P.



Tidewater Trade and Ritual: The Early and Middle Woodland, 2,700-1,000 B.P.



Tethered to the Land: The Late Woodland, 1,000-4,000 B.P.



The Recent Past



The Tumultuous Encounter: "Some Monster of the Sea"



The Arrival of the Global Economy



Daily Life in New Amsterdam and Early New York



Urban Space in the Colonial and Post-Revolutionary City



Daily Life in the Nineteenth-Century City



Building the City: The Waterfront



Building in the City: Early Urban Backyards



Beyond the City's Edge



"We Were Here": The African Presence in Colonial New York



Conclusion



Common Ground


Notes


References


Index


Illustration Credits