Unearthing Gotham : the archaeology of New York City /

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Author / Creator:Cantwell, Anne-Marie E., 1935-
Imprint:New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2001.
Description:x, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4544122
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Other authors / contributors:Wall, Diana diZerega.
ISBN:0300084153
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-353) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Introduction
  • Ch. 1. The Archaeology of New York City
  • Ch. 2. Digging in New York
  • Pt. 2. The Deeper Past
  • Ch. 3. The Creation of the World: The Paleoindian Period, 11,000-10,000 B.P.
  • Ch. 4. Settling Down in the Archaic, 10,000-3,700 B.P.
  • Ch. 5. Funerary Pyres on Long Island: The Transitional, 3,700-2,700 B.P.
  • Ch. 6. Tidewater Trade and Ritual: The Early and Middle Woodland, 2,700-1,000 B.P.
  • Ch. 7. Tethered to the Land: The Late Woodland, 1,000-4,000 B.P.
  • Pt. 3. The Recent Past
  • Ch. 8. The Tumultuous Encounter: "Some Monster of the Sea"
  • Ch. 9. The Arrival of the Global Economy
  • Ch. 10. Daily Life in New Amsterdam and Early New York
  • Ch. 11. Urban Space in the Colonial and Post-Revolutionary City
  • Ch. 12. Daily Life in the Nineteenth-Century City
  • Ch. 13. Building the City: The Waterfront
  • Ch. 14. Building in the City: Early Urban Backyards
  • Ch. 15. Beyond the City's Edge
  • Ch. 16. "We Were Here": The African Presence in Colonial New York
  • Pt. 4. Conclusion
  • Ch. 17. Common Ground.