Unearthing Gotham - The Archaeology of New York City  -  Ann-Marie Cantwell, Diana diZerega Wall

The Archaeology of New York City

KORTE INHOUD

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 o...
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2001 Uitgever: Yale U.P. 374 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0300097999 ISBN-13: 9780300097993