Writing the Archaeology of America's Modern Cities

Summary

 Over the last few decades, archaeologists have contributed a great deal to our understanding of contemporary American cities. 

We  have just finished writing a book about the work these colleagues have done, based on material they have provided from  all over the country, mostly from the grey literature.  Their archaeological investigations are informative at two scales of analysis.  Some studies, on the macro scale, have encompassed the whole city, and reveal patterns of urban development,  structure, and the reworking of the landscape.  Others, on a micro scale, have uncovered how the members of different cultural groups

 have used materiality to define themselves and others.    Although there is enormous variability within these groups, the analyses  

also yielded illuminating patterns.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2013

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