Question

add an in-text citation using mla format.

the neighborhood sat on top of an assortment of about two hundred years worth of aristocrats waste
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source: \peeling back a citys layers\ by jennifer hattam, page 31. published in discover sept. 2015:

excavations beneath rio de janeiros leopoldina neighborhood revealed a treasure trove of trash discarded by aristocrats between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Explanation:

MLA in-text citation for a print article includes the author's last name and the page number, placed in parentheses at the end of the borrowed information, before the final punctuation.

Answer:

(Hattam 31)