Touring Gotham’s Archaeological Past: 8 Self-Guided Walking Tours through New York City - Softcover

Wall, Diana DiZerega; Cantwell, Anne-Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300103883 ISBN 13: 9780300103885

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The first walking guide ever to explore New York City through its unique archaeological underpinnings

This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a new way of exploring the city through the rich history that lies buried beneath it. Generously illustrated and replete with maps, the tours are designed to explore both ancient times and modern space.

On these tours, readers will see where archaeologists have discovered evidence of the earliest New Yorkers, the Native Americans who arrived at least 11,000 years ago. They will learn about thousand-year-old trading routes, sacred burial grounds, and seventeenth-century villages. They will also see sites that reveal details of the lives of colonial farmers and merchants, enslaved Africans, Revolutionary War soldiers, and nineteenth-century hotel keepers, grocers, and housewives.

Some tours bring readers to popular tourist attractions (the Statue of Liberty and the Wall Street district, for example) and present them in a new light. Others center on places that even the most seasoned New Yorker has never seen—colonial houses, a working farm, out-of-the-way parks, and remote beaches—often providing beautiful and unexpected views from the city’s vast shoreline.

A celebration of New York City’s past and its present, this unique book will intrigue everyone interested in the city and its history.

About this title

About the Author:

Diana diZerega Wall is professor of anthropology at the City College of the City University of New York. Anne-Marie Cantwell is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University.

Review:

"An indispensable and exciting guide to a whole new world of history."—Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences at Columbia University and editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300103883
• ISBN 13: 9780300103885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226