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The Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Brown: Urban Archaeology on Contaminated Sites (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the presence of soil contamination is not unique to urban archaeological sites, the density of industrial and residential development in cities often results in the contamination of archaeologically sensitive soils. In New York City in recent years, archaeologists have excavated within Brownfield...