The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes

This exciting collection on a new movement in urban archaeology investigates the historical archaeology of urban slums. The stuff that is dug up--broken dinner plates nails and plaster samples--will not quickly find its way into museum collections. But properly interpreted it yields evidence of lives and communities that have left little in the way of written records. Twelve case studies define a new field which will attract the attention of a range of students and scholars outside archaeology in particular historical sociologists and historians.