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Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes by Amy Young; Shannon Lee Dawdy; Martha Zierden; Bonnie L. Gums; Joseph W. Joseph; Linda Derry; Patrick Garrow; Terry Kline; Robert A. Genheimer; Audrey Horning; George W. Shorter Jr; Christopher Matthews is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Groundbreaking essays in urban archaeology highlight the impact of towns and cities on the southern landscape The rapid growth and development of urban areas in the South have resulted in an increase in the number of urban archaeology projects required by federal and state agencies. These projects provide opportunities not only to investigate marginal areas between the town and countryside but also to recover information long buried beneath the earliest urban structures. Such projects have also created a need for a one-volume update on archaeology as it is practiced in the urban areas of the southeastern United States. Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes will assist practitioners and scholars in the burgeoning fields of urban and landscape archaeology by treating the South as a distinctive social, geographic, and material entity and by focusing on the urban South rather than the stereotypical South of rural plantations. The case studies in this volume span the entire southeastern United States, from Annapolis to New Orleans and from colonial times to the 19th century. The authors address questions involving the function of cities, interregional diversity, the evolution of the

Author

Amy Young; Shannon Lee Dawdy; Martha Zierden; Bonnie L. Gums; Joseph W. Joseph; Linda Derry; Patrick Garrow; Terry Kline; Robert A. Genheimer; Audrey Horning; George W. Shorter Jr; Christopher Matthews

Publisher

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817310301

Subjects

Sociology, History, Science