Description: Buried Beneath the City : An Archaeological History of New York, Paperback by Rothschild, Nan A.; Sutphin, Amanda; Bankoff, H. Arthur; Maclean, Jessica Striebel, ISBN 0231194951, ISBN-13 9780231194952, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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. Th 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 withimages 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"--
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Book Title: Buried Beneath the City : an Archaeological History of New York
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.1 in
Topic: Archaeology, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Sociology / Urban
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Author: Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, Nan A. Rothschild, Jessica Striebel Maclean
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
