Digging in the City of Brotherly Love [electronic resource] : stories from Philadelphia archaeology / Rebecca Yamin.
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TextPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2008.Description: xiv, 240 pSubject(s): - 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
- 974.8/11 22
- F158.39 .Y36 2008eb
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.
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