Unearthing Gotham : The Archaeology of New York City

by Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall

• ISBN13: 9780300097993
• ISBN10: 0300097999
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-10-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Part 1: Introduction
CHAPTER ONE The Archæology of New York City	3	(12)
CHAPTER TWO Digging in New York	15	(20)
Part 2: The Deeper Past
CHAPTER THREE The Creation of the World: The Paleoindian Period, 11,000-10,000 B.P.	35	(11)
CHAPTER FOUR Settling Down in the Archaic, 10,000-3,700 B.P.	46	(16)
CHAPTER FIVE Funerary Pyres on Long Island: The Transitional, 3,700-2,700 B.P.	62	(11)
CHAPTER SIX Tidewater Trade and Ritual: The Early and Middle Woodland, 2,700-1,000 B.P.	73	(20)
CHAPTER SEVEN Tethered to the Land: The Late Woodland, 1,000-400 B.P.	93	(26)
Part 3: The Recent Past
CHAPTER EIGHT A Tumultuous Encounter: "Some Monster of the Sea"	119	(30)
CHAPTER NINE The Arrival of the Global Economy	149	(18)
CHAPTER TEN Daily Life in New Amsterdam and Early New York	167	(21)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Urban Space in the Colonial and Post-Revolutionary City	188	(18)
CHAPTER TWELVE Daily Life in the Nineteenth-Century City	206	(18)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Building the City: The Waterfront	224	(18)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Building in the City: Early Urban Backyards	242	(15)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Beyond the City's Edge	257	(20)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN "We Were Here": The African Presence in Colonial New York	277	(20)
Part 4: Conclusion
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Common Ground	297	(6)
Notes	303	(28)
References	331	(24)
Index	355	(18)
Illustration Credits	373