Old City (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan P. Taylor.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For contemporary residents and descendants of former residents, the oldness of “old cities” indexes the persistence of home, memory, and attachment. This poster centers the materialization of residents’ interactions with surfaces of the old cities of Acre (Israel/Palestine) and Rhodes (Greece), which were assembled under Crusader and Ottoman rule, and through to the present. The Old City...