{"product_id":"9780231194945-buried-beneath-the-city","title":"Buried Beneath the City","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Archaeological History of New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuried Beneath the City \u003c\/i\u003euses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2023 SAA Book Award - Popular, Society for American Archaeology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2024 Felicia A. Holton Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Indigenous tools used thousands of years ago; wine jugs from a seventeenth-century tavern; a teapot from Seneca Village, the nineteenth-century Black settlement displaced by Central Park; raspberry seeds sown in backyard Brooklyn gardens—these everyday objects are windows into the city’s forgotten history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuried Beneath the City\u003c\/i\u003e uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent events. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts, from the first traces of Indigenous societies more than ten thousand years ago to the detritus of Dutch and English colonization and through to the burgeoning city’s transformation into the modern metropolis. It demonstrates how the archaeological record often goes beyond written history by preserving mundane things—details of everyday life that are beneath the notice of the documentary record. These artifacts reveal the density, diversity, and creativity of a city perpetually tearing up its foundations to rebuild itself. Lavishly illustrated with images of objects excavated in the city, \u003ci\u003eBuried Beneath the City\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an archaeological history of New York City and an introduction to urban archaeology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56326810632566,"sku":"9780231194945","price":133.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29866030.jpg?v=1758534080","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780231194945-buried-beneath-the-city","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}