Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology
Title | Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Don D. Fowler |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2003-09-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0817313125 |
ContributorsLawrence E. AtenElin C. DanienDon D. FowlerAlice B. KehoeFrances Joan MathienJerald T. MilanichRobert L. SchuylerSteven ConnRegna DarnellCurtis M. HinsleyEleanor M. KingDavid J. MeltzerJeremy A. SabloffDavid R. Wilcox
Digging in the City of Brotherly Love
Title | Digging in the City of Brotherly Love PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Yamin |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2008-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300142641 |
Beneath the modern city of Philadelphia lie countless clues to its history and the lives of residents long forgotten. This intriguing book explores eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Philadelphia through the findings of archaeological excavations, sharing with readers the excitement of digging into the past and reconstructing the lives of earlier inhabitants of the city.Urban archaeologist Rebecca Yamin describes the major excavations that have been undertaken since 1992 as part of the redevelopment of Independence Mall and surrounding areas, explaining how archaeologists gather and use raw data to learn more about the ordinary people whose lives were never recorded in history books. Focusing primarily on these unknown citizens-an accountant in the first Treasury Department, a coachmaker whose clients were politicians doing business at the State House, an African American founder of St. Thomas’s African Episcopal Church, and others-Yamin presents a colorful portrait of old Philadelphia. She also discusses political aspects of archaeology today-who supports particular projects and why, and what has been lost to bulldozers and heedlessness. Digging in the City of Brotherly Love tells the exhilarating story of doing archaeology in the real world and using its findings to understand the past.
Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the American Revolution
Title | Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the American Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Yamin |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2018-12-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 143991642X |
Using archaeological finds to tell the story of the growth of Philadelphia in microcosm
James A. Ford and the Growth of Americanist Archaeology
Title | James A. Ford and the Growth of Americanist Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Michael John O'Brien |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780826211842 |
Tells the story of Ford's role in the development of culture history, the dominant paradigm in archaeology from 1914 through 1960. Provides a glimpse of how archaeologists began using a variety of methods to attain spatial and temporal control over an exceedingly diverse and complex archaeological record. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Buried Past
Title | The Buried Past PDF eBook |
Author | John L. Cotter |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 563 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Archaeology and history |
ISBN | 0812231422 |
The Buried Past presents the most significant archaeological discoveries made in one of America's most historic cities. Based on more than thirty years of intensive archaeological investigations in the greater Philadelphia area, this study contains the first record of many nationally important sites linking archaeological evidence to historical documentation, including Interdependence and Valley Forge National Historical Parks. It provides an archaeological tour through the houses and life-ways of both the great figures and the common people. It reveals how people dined, what vessels and dishes they used, and what their trinkets (and secret sins) were.
American Antiquities
Title | American Antiquities PDF eBook |
Author | Terry A. Barnhart |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 597 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803284292 |
Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward or simple as it might seem. Archaeology's trajectory from an avocation, to a semi-profession, to a specialized, self-conscious profession was anything but a linear progression. The development of American archaeology was an organic and untidy process, which emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism and closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century--especially geology and the debate about the origins and identity of indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States. Terry A. Barnhart examines how American archaeology developed within an eclectic set of interests and equally varied settings. He argues that fundamental problems are deeply embedded in secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about "Mound Builders" and "American Indians." Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the accommodating, indiscriminate, and problematic use of the term "race" as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper--a concept and construct that does not, in all instances, translate into current understandings and usages. American Antiquities uses this early discourse on the mounds to frame perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.
New Philadelphia
Title | New Philadelphia PDF eBook |
Author | Paul A. Shackel |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520266293 |
"A groundbreaking study in which an engaged archaeology produces nuanced understandings of the past and shapes new understandings of the present. New Philadelphia promotes a rethinking of race relations between African and European Americans."—Claire Smith, President, World Archaeological Congress "Shackel shows in explicit detail how one community archaeology project—dealing with the delicate subject of race—is being put into practice in the American Midwest. This is required reading for archaeologists and historic preservation activists who confront bondage and freedom, and who wrestle with remembrance and representation in real time."—Charles Orser, author of Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation "New Philadelphia examines an historic struggle for social justice and the role for archaeology in anti-racist projects. Shackel's engaging narrative shifts among artifacts, landscapes, and documents to illuminate the lives of African Americans and European Americans in a 19th- and early 20th-century community. This is an important book for archaeologists, historians, and cultural heritage practitioners interested in recovering the past to address pressing issues of the present."—Robert Paynter, co-editor of Lines that Divide and co-director of archaeological research at the W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite