Unearthing Gotham
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The Archaeology of New York City
Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall
In treating New York’s five boroughs as one enormous archaeological site, Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall weave Native American, colonial, and post-colonial history into an absorbing, panoramic narrative. They also describe the work of the archaeologists who uncovered this evidence—nineteenth-century pioneers, concerned citizens, and today’s professionals. In the process, Cantwell and Wall raise provocative questions about the nature of cities, urbanization, the colonial experience, Indian life, the family, and the use of space. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Unearthing Gotham offers a fresh perspective on the richness of the American legacy.
Anne-Marie Cantwell is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. Diana diZerega Wall is professor of anthropology at the City College of the City University of New York.
"[Cantwell and Wall] have written a book with new information about New York City, and have built a model for how other archaeologists can do the same. Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City is successful as a synthesis as well as a model of how to do one. . . . Many scholars will use this book to prove that all the archaeology of a single place can be made intelligible in a single intellectual effort. . . . This book took a great deal of work to produce, and it works."—Mark Leone, The Public Historian
Publication Date: October 11, 2003
152 b/w illus.