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Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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This book presents research into the urban archaeology of
19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of
20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block
site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant
site in Sydney - First Government House. The book is anchored
around a detailed comparison of contents of 20 cesspits created
during the 19th century, and examines patterns of similarity and
dissimilarity, presenting analyses that work towards an integration
of historical and archaeological data and perspectives. The book
also outlines a transnational framework of comparison that assists
in the larger context related to building a truly global
archaeology of the modern city. This framework is directly related
a multi-scalar approach to urban archaeology. Historical
archaeologists have been advocating the need to explore the
archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or
frames of reference. The most popular (and most basic) of these has
been the household. However, it has also been acknowledged that
interpreting the archaeology of households beyond the notion that
every household and associated archaeological assemblage is unique
requires archaeologists and historians to compare and contrast, and
to establish patterns. These comparisons frequently occur at the
level of the area or district in the same city, where
archaeologists seek to derive patterns that might be explained as
being the result of status, class, ethnicity, or ideology. Other
less frequent comparisons occur at larger scales, for example
between cities or countries, acknowledging that the archaeology of
the modern western city is also the archaeology of modern global
forces of production, consumption, trade, immigration and ideology
formation. This book makes a contribution to that general
literature
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