Unearthing Gotham; The Archaeology of New York City

by Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall

• ISBN13: 9780300084153
• ISBN10: 0300084153
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

- Winner of The New York Society Library's 2002 Book Award for History

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Part I: Introduction
The Archarology of New York City	3	(12)
Digging in New York	15	(20)
Part 2: The Deeper Past
The Creation of the Workd: The Paleoindian Period, II,000--I0,000 B.P	35	(11)
Settling Down in the Archaic, I0,000--3,700 B.P.	46	(16)
Funerary Pyres on Long Island: The Transitional, 3,700--2,700 B.P.	62	(11)
Tidewater Trade and Ritual: The Early and Middle Woodland, 2,700--1,000 B.P.	73	(20)
Tethered to the Land: The Late Woodland, 1,000--400 B.P.	93	(26)
Part 3: The Recent Past
A Tumultuous Encounter: ``Some Monster of the Sea''	119	(30)
The Arrival of the Global Economy	149	(18)
Daily Life in New Amsterdam and Early New York	167	(21)
Urban Space in the Colonial and Post-Revolutionary City	188	(18)
Daily Life in the Nineteenth-Century City	206	(18)
Building the City: The Waterfront	224	(18)
Building in the City: Early Urban Backyards	242	(15)
Beyond the City's Edge	257	(20)
``We Were Here'': The African Presence in Colonial New York	277	(20)
Part 4: Conclusion
Common Ground	297	(6)
Notes	303	(28)
References	331	(24)
Index	355	(18)
Illustration Credits	373