"Unrivaled in scope. An essential work for urban historical archaeologists."--Adrian Praetzellis, author of Dug to Death

"An engaging and astonishingly comprehensive work that reveals just how much our knowledge of America's cities and the lives of city dwellers has been enriched through urban archaeology."--Mary C. Beaudry, coeditor of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement

American cities have been built, altered, redeveloped, destroyed, reimagined, and rebuilt for nearly 300 years in order to accommodate growing and shrinking populations and their...

Unrivaled in scope. An essential work for urban historical archaeologists. Adrian Praetzellis, author of Dug to Death

An engaging and astonishingly comprehensive work that reveals just how much our knowledge of America s cities and the lives of city dwellers has been enriched through urban archaeology. Mary C. Beaudry, coeditor of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement

American cities have been built, altered, redeveloped, destroyed, reimagined, and rebuilt for nearly 300 years in order to accommodate growing and shrinking populations and their needs....