Introduction: Urban Historical Archaeology of and as Dissonance—An Invitation for Collaboration

of which we archaeologists are still grappling with today (Babiarz 2011; Platt 2020); see Graff (this issue), Gray and Williams (this issue), Ike (this issue), Niculescu (this issue), Ryzewski (this issue).and Skolnik and Lee (this issue).The result of this dramatic uptick in excavations was the belated realization that historically urban sites survived in and under present densely developed cities and were able to provide unique insights into past life within those cities (Salwen 1982:xiii;Zierden and Calhoun 1984).This realization prompted an archaeology of the city, an analytical consideration of life within these urban places (Dickens 1982:xix; Rothschild and Wall 2014:20-21;Zierden and Calhoun 1984). 1 Key figures began to emerge as archaeologists with the responsibility of overseeing these resources wrangled the unique research challenges, practical and theoretical, of archaeology within and of the city.Zierden and Calhoun's (1984) research design for the city of Charleston, South Carolina, represents one of these early efforts to dictate a clear set of archaeological methodologies for an urban landscape.Their research foci reflect concerns with social complexity, human