The historical archaeology of Buenos Aires: a city at the end of the world

Abstract

1: Did It Exist at All?: The First Buenos Aires (1536-1541). The Beginning. Things Were Not That Easy. New Questions That Archaeology Brought Forth. 2: A Long Road to Becoming a City. Foundation and Early Times (1580-1620). The Colonial Village: As in a Humble Europe but Not Quite the Same (1620-1810). A Paris in the Americas (1810-1880). 3: Archaeology in the Downtown. The Coni Press (Peru 680): Changes in a Lot at the Urban Border. 1865, An Urban Project: The Tunnel for the Tercero del Sur (Defensa 751). The Elia House: Changes in Typology and Topography. (Balcarce 531). The Pena House: From Aristocracy to Conventillos (San Lorenzo 392). Archaeology in a Conventillo and Everyday Life of the Lower Social Class (Defensa 774). The Huergo Stores: A Grand Family Project in an Ever Changing City (Balcarce 433). In the Central Area: The House of Maria Josefa Ezcurra (Alsina 455). Five Houses on Old Victoria Street. Ashes to Ashes: The Barriles House in the Lezama Park. How a House Changed Throughout Time (Chile 830). From a Suburban Household to Residence of a Governor: The Caseron de Rosas. Tradition and Prestige of Spain in the Americas: The Cabildo. A Secret Project: Eighteenth-Century Tunnels under Buenos Aires. The Jesuits' Residency for Men in San Telmo. Archaeology in Public Spaces: Parks and Plazas in the City. 4: 'To Be or Not to Be (European-like)': The Archaeology of Ethnicity and Gender. The Indian Presence. The African Presence. The Presence of Children. The Presence of Women. 5: All Other Things from a City: The Nonarchitectural Evidence. The Faunistic and Malacological Evidence. The Ceramic Evidence. The Evidence of Material Culture. The Botanical and Chemical Evidence. 6: An Archaeological Overview of Downtown Buenos Aires. The Settlement Pattern.Parcels and Architecture. Change and Continuity. References. Glossary. Index.