300-year-old trash becomes treasure via an urban archaeologist | The Artifact Artist

‘An Indiana Jones in Gotham’ - how an urban archaeologist unearths centuries-old treasure beneath New York City.
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Scott Jordan’s two-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York is filled with thousands of local artifacts, many of which date back centuries. Populating his shelves and drawers are glass bottles, porcelain dolls, pottery and even a gun from the Revolutionary War - all of them once buried far beneath New Yorkers’ feet, and many of which he’s repurposed to create original art. This small museum of recovered treasures comes from years of playing in the dirt and digging out landfills, cisterns and privies by hand. In The Artifact Artist, the US director Russ Kendall explores the buried history of cities, and how Jordan finds meaning and community in the process of searching for, discovering, and transforming objects others have left for trash.