February 02, 2012 01:44:05 PM
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1. Dutch gin bottle and clay pipe fragments (found on the site of the guards' post in the original Wall of Wall St. and at other excavation sites in lower Manhattan. Maybe NYC Department of Design and Construction knows where such artifacts are kept)
2. Piece of wood pipe from first Croton Aqueduct.
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1. New York was originally New Amsterdam. Alcohol and tobacco.
Perennial story in New York.
2. Infrastructure!
Suggestion for more objects, see the book:
Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City
Anne-Marie Cantwell (Author), Professor Diana diZerega Wall (Author), Diana diZerega Wall (Author)
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