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Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City

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Editors:
  1. Meta F. Janowitz

    1. URS Corporation, School of visual arts, Burlington, USA

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  2. Diane Dallal

    1. AKRF, Inc., NEW YORK, USA

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  • Focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research

  • Creates a collection of narratives of people who have lived in New York City during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries using archaeological data

  • Contains a forward by renowned archaeological theorist Mary Beaudry

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. New Amsterdam: Americans and Europeans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. New Amsterdam: Americans and Europeans, Historical Background

      • Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
      Pages 3-6

    3. Penhawitz and Wampage and the Seventeenth-Century World They Dominated

      • Anne-Marie Cantwell
      Pages 7-30

    4. A Manhattan Hortus Medicus?: Healing Herbs in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam

      • Richard G. Schaefer
      Pages 31-55

  3. Dutch Women in an English Colony

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Dutch Women in an English Colony, Historical Background

      • Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
      Pages 59-63

    3. Sara Roelofse, Matron of New Amsterdam

      • Meta F. Janowitz
      Pages 65-88

    4. Maria and Alida: Two Dutch Women in the English Hudson Valley

      • Nan A. Rothschild
      Pages 89-104

    5. Ann Elizabeth Staats Schuyler, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Who Helped Shape Manhattan

      • Joan H. Geismar
      Pages 105-123

  4. Africans in New York

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Africans in New York, Historical Background

      • Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
      Pages 127-131

    3. The African Burial Ground in the Age of Revolution: A Landscape in Transition

      • Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
      Pages 133-158

    4. HW: Epitaph for a Working Man

      • Jean Howson
      Pages 159-178

    5. Finding Pinkster: The Ethnoarchaeology of Dancing in the Street

      • Kate Tarlow Morgan
      Pages 179-201

  5. Merchants, Craftsmen, and Working Men

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Merchants Craftsmen and Working Men, Historical Background

      • Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
      Pages 205-210

    3. The Van Voorhis Family: Artisans in Post-Colonial New York City

      • Diana diZerega Wall
      Pages 211-224

    4. John Zuricher, Stone Cutter, and His Imprint on the Religious Landscape of Colonial New York

      • Sherene Baugher, Richard F. Veit
      Pages 225-247

    5. Wiert Valentine: Cartman of New York City Politics, Food and Drink in Early Republican New York

      • Charles D. Cheek
      Pages 249-263
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Keywords

About this book

Historical Archaeology of New York City is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical studies created using archaeological and documentary data. As microhistories, they are concerned with particular people living at particular times in the past within the framework of world events. The world events framework will be provided in short introductions to chapters grouped by time periods and themes. The foreword by Mary Beaudry and the afterword by LuAnne DeCunzo bookend the individual case studies and add theoretical weight to the volume. Historical Archaeology of New York City focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research. Archaeologists work with material culture—artifacts—to recreate daily lives and study how culture works; this book is an example of how to do this in a way that can attract people interested in history as well as in anthropological theory.

Reviews

“With this volume, Janowitz and Dallal offer a collection of archaeologically based narratives of past residents of New York City, spanning the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. … This book would be of interest to a wide range of historians, archaeologists, and ethnographers, as much for its approach to the production of narratives from historical and archaeological data as for the specific content of its papers.” (John P. McCarthy, Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 71, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • URS Corporation, School of visual arts, Burlington, USA

    Meta F. Janowitz

  • AKRF, Inc., NEW YORK, USA

    Diane Dallal

About the editors

Dr. Janowitz has over twenty-five years experience in historical archaeology, with an emphasis on the study of material culture. She has served as a materials analyst and laboratory supervisor on a wide variety of projects and has been a primary or contributing author on a number of cultural resource management reports. Her specialties include urban archaeology in the Northeast and she has worked on projects in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Wilmington, Delaware. As part of the process of artifact analysis, she designed and implemented a computer coding and data retrieval system for historic period artifacts. She is currently Material Specialist and Laboratory Coordinator, at the URS Corporation, Burlington, NJ. Diane Dallal, a technical director at AKRF, has 30 years of experience in cultural resources management, fieldwork, artifact analysis, conservation, and the management of archaeological collections in the New York City metropolitan area. She has conducted numerous archival, field and artifact research projects and co-authored Phase I-III reports for agency approval pursuant to SEQRA and CEQR. Ms. Dallal has worked on numerous archaeological investigations in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio and Puerto Rico. She was the director of New York City’s only urban archaeology museum, New York Unearthed, and is the former curator of the South Street Seaport Museum’s archaeological collections of over 2 million artifacts. Ms. Dallal is an expert in the interpretation of archaeological sites for the general public and has curated several exhibits incorporating artifacts from archaeological sites in New York City.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City

  • Editors: Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5272-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5271-3Published: 03 February 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9751-7Published: 06 March 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5272-0Published: 03 February 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 369

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies

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