- Winner of The New York Society Library's 2002 Book Award for History
Acknowledgments
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Part 1: Introduction
CHAPTER ONE The Archæology of New York City
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CHAPTER TWO Digging in New York
15
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Part 2: The Deeper Past
CHAPTER THREE The Creation of the World: The Paleoindian Period, 11,000-10,000 B.P.
35
(11)
CHAPTER FOUR Settling Down in the Archaic, 10,000-3,700 B.P.
46
(16)
CHAPTER FIVE Funerary Pyres on Long Island: The Transitional, 3,700-2,700 B.P.
62
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CHAPTER SIX Tidewater Trade and Ritual: The Early and Middle Woodland, 2,700-1,000 B.P.
73
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CHAPTER SEVEN Tethered to the Land: The Late Woodland, 1,000-400 B.P.
93
(26)
Part 3: The Recent Past
CHAPTER EIGHT A Tumultuous Encounter: "Some Monster of the Sea"
119
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CHAPTER NINE The Arrival of the Global Economy
149
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CHAPTER TEN Daily Life in New Amsterdam and Early New York
167
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CHAPTER ELEVEN Urban Space in the Colonial and Post-Revolutionary City
188
(18)
CHAPTER TWELVE Daily Life in the Nineteenth-Century City
206
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Building the City: The Waterfront
224
(18)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Building in the City: Early Urban Backyards
242
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN Beyond the City's Edge
257
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN "We Were Here": The African Presence in Colonial New York
277
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Part 4: Conclusion
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Common Ground
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Notes
303
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References
331
(24)
Index
355
(18)
Illustration Credits
373
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