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Book Description The last
decade has been a period of archaeological activity in Albany unlike
any other in the city’s history in terms of the size and quantity of
investigations that were completed. This volume presents some of the
recent results of archaeological excavations in Albany to
archaeologists and others with an interest in the material remains of
this city’s past. Following the initial chapters that provide a brief
overview of the history of Albany and a history of archaeology in
Albany, the chapters are organized under the topics related to daily
life in the past: people, places, and material things. The final
section presents chapters concerned with battles and breakthroughs or
challenges that archaeologists in Albany have faced in the process of
investigating this city. That
early Albany was a multicultural community is continually revealed in
new ways by archaeological evidence. There is no single, unified past
of the city that can be revealed by a single individual or group, but
many pasts described by the multiple voices of the former inhabitants.
The illegal traders outside Fort Orange in the seventeenth century, the
persecuted religious minority, the cottage industrialists who made
wampum, soldiers of the colonial wars, servants, and even a
middle-class lawyer are among the subjects of archaeological studies
included here. Although historic documents have provided names for some
of these individuals, the silence of documentary records regarding
their daily lives begs for archaeological exploration. The material
things that were created, used, exchanged, and discarded by the people
of Albany at specific places are the primary sources of these
archaeological studies. Places in the landscape of historic Albany may
be considered as larger material objects created for a variety of
reasons. Gardens, yards, cemeteries, military structures, pottery
dumps, and the development of the waterfront have come to light through
archaeological investigations, which provide new perspectives on daily
life and the way that the urban environment was created and then shaped
peoples lives.
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First Sentence:
The tension between urban and rural life has been a feature of the
American social and political landscape since the initial European
colonization. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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wampum production,
postwar garden,
painted pearlware,
ceramic deposits,
subterranean beds,
camera photogrammetry,
archaeological mitigation,
buff earthenware,
historic deposits,
base motifs,
pit feature,
glass trade beads,
wampum beads,
pipe fragments,
office building site,
strontium content,
skeletal analysis,
tavern site,
historical archaeology,
church lot,
ceramic sherds,
recording solution,
structural remains,
bone content,
stable isotope analysis
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs):
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New York,
Fort Orange,
Albany County,
Hartgen Archeological Associates,
Pearl Street,
Hudson River,
State Street,
Columbia Street,
Schuyler Mansion,
Fox Creek,
Native American,
Montgomery Street,
Samuel Stevens,
New Netherland,
Raritan Landing,
Pine Bush,
Dutch West India Company,
Historical Archaeology of Albany,
Revolutionary War,
Maiden Lane,
North America,
United States,
John Fondey,
National Register,
Rutten Kill
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