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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love

Yamin, Rebecca, 1942-

Digging in the City of Brotherly Love stories from Philadelphia archaeology / [electronic resource] : Rebecca Yamin. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2008. - xiv, 240 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.

Beneath the symbolic surface -- Hudson's Square: the middle block of Independence Mall -- An icon and an icehouse: the first block of Independence Mall -- Artisans in a changing world -- "We the people": the free Black community, Native Americans, and the celebration of the Constitution -- Life and death in the nineteenth-century city -- On the waterfront -- An archaeological walk in the eighteenth-century city -- An archaeological walk through nineteenth-century neighborhoods -- The legacy of William Penn and the power of the past.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Excavations (Archaeology)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Historic sites--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Archaeologists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Urban archaeology--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Archaeology and history--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.


Philadelphia (Pa.)--Antiquities.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

F158.39 / .Y36 2008eb

974.8/11

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