Under the teeming metropolis that is present-day New York City lie the buried remains of long-lost worlds. The remnants of nineteenth-century New York reveal much about its inhabitants and neighborhoods, from fashionable Washington Square to the notorious Five Points. Underneath there are traces of the Dutch and English colonists who arrived in the area in the seventeenth century, as well as of the Africans they enslaved. And beneath all these layers is the land that Native Americans occupied for hundreds of generations from their first arrival eleven thousand years ago. Now two distinguished archaeologists draw on the results of more than a century of excavations to relate the interconnected stories of these different peoples who shared and shaped the land that makes up the modern city. 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.
See Hudson River Park Hudson Yards, 350 Hughes, Richard, 272 human waste, 95, 109, 113–15, 117, 118, 122,163 Hunter, Douglas, 4 Hunter, George, 141 Hunter, Robert, 197 Hunter Island, ...
Thomas,118 DeRousseau, Jean, 14 Dickens,Charles,44 dog burials,87, 87–88,89,94,98, 110–11 Dunham, David, 40 Dunsmore, John Ward,89 Dutch colony: conflict with Native Americans, 29, 97, 105, 109, 116, 121; earliest remains of, 1; ...
The story of New York City that began before the first humans settled in the region twelve thousand years ago is told in a unique account of the area's geological history, a look at how the region has served as a habitat for a diversity of ...
This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience in New York City up to the present with vital new material on the city’s revival as a global metropolis with deeply rooted racial and economic ...
A primary objective was to reduce the cost of curbside recycling (currently paper, metal, glass, and plastic) especially through a twenty-year contract with Sims Hugo Neu Corporation to process and market metal, glass, and plastic.
Shawna Brynildssen, “Nathan's Famous, Inc.,” in International Directory of Company Histories, ed. Tina Grant (Detroit: St. James Press, 1988), 29:342–44; James Trager, The Food Chronology: A Food Lover's Compendium ofEvents and ...
“Dutch against the English”); Edward Rawson to Josiah Winslow, September 6, 1673 (“the whole emergency”), Edward Rawson to Josiah Winslow, March 14, 1673/4 (“present insolency”), Winslow Family Papers II, MHS.
According to historian Erik R. Seeman, when Indians, Africans, and Europeans encountered one another, they could not ignore the similarities in their approaches to death.
determine the ship's original shape. A team of four volunteers at the Mariners' Museum helped us analyze the field data, which consisted of thousands of sketches, charts of measurements, and photographs. During the excavation we ...
On the transformation of New York City, see Susan S. Fainstein, The Just City (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), ... and Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities, translated and edited by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas (Malden, ...