Description: Further DetailsTitle: Buried Beneath the CityCondition: NewSubtitle: An Archaeological History of New YorkISBN-10: 0231194943EAN: 9780231194945ISBN: 9780231194945Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/06/2022Description: Winner, 2023 SAA Book Award - Popular, Society for American ArchaeologyHonorable Mention, 2024 Felicia A. Holton Book Award, Archaeological Institute of AmericaBits 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. Indigenous tools used thousands of years ago; wine jugs from a seventeenth-century tavern; a teapot from Seneca Village, the nineteenth-century Black settlement displaced by Central Park; raspberry 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 events. 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 often 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmAuthor: Nan A. Rothschild, Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, Jessica Striebel MacLeanGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Buried Beneath the City
Title: Buried Beneath the City
Subtitle: An Archaeological History of New York
ISBN-10: 0231194943
EAN: 9780231194945
ISBN: 9780231194945
Release Date: 09/06/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
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: 0.9 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: 36.3 Oz
Item Length: 10.4 in
Author: Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, Nan A. Rothschild, Jessica Striebel Maclean
Item Width: 7.1 in
Format: Hardcover
