Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Issues of Scale,Integration and Complexity |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Tim?MurrayEmail author Penny?Crook |
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Institution: | (1) Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia |
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Abstract: | Historical archaeologists have advocated the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales
or frames of reference—the household and the district being the most common. In this paper, we discuss the value of comparisons
at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, as a basis for understanding archaeology of the modern western
city. We argue that patterns of similarity and dissimilarity detected at these larger scales can (and should) become part
of our interpretive and explanatory armoury, when it comes to understanding patterns and processes at smaller scales. However,
we also believe that these larger scale enquiries do not by any means exhaust (or diminish the importance of) the site- or
household-specific questions that continue to demand adequate answers. By reporting some of the thinking behind the work that
has been done in Melbourne, Sydney and shortly to begin in London, we seek to more clearly establish the value of this broader
comparative agenda in urban historical archaeology. |
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Keywords: | urban archaeology Melbourne Sydney London nineteenth-century cities integration |
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