Abstract
The Market Street Chinatown in San Jose, California, was a thriving urban community until its destruction by arson fire on May 4, 1887. A surprisingly robust assemblage of wood artifacts was recovered during salvage excavations in the mid 1980s. Taxonomic identification and analysis of structural timbers and portable wood objects contribute new perspectives on trade, travel, the built environment, recreation, and work in this nineteenth-century Chinese immigrant community. As wood artifacts are not commonly preserved in open-air archaeological deposits, this study contributes a rare archaeological view on the use of wood materials in nineteenth-century urban life.
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