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DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Entin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1840s, Jewish Five Points resident Harris Goldberg discarded trash behind his 472 Pearl Street home. 150 years later, archaeologists recovered remnants of a roast beef dinner, fragments of glass tableware, and even the skull of a household pet parrot. Another interesting discovery was that of several lead...