Philadelphia Pennsylvania (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The I-95/Girard Avenue Interchange Improvement Project is one of the largest transportation related undertakings in Pennsylvania, and the project area winds its way through some of the most historically significant neighborhoods along the city’s Delaware River waterfront. Archaeological...
The R.I.P. Myth: Why There Is Little Peace For Philadelphia’s Unmarked Historic Burial Places (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Philadelphia has often been described as a city of cemeteries. Today there are more than 300 known burial sites spread throughout its borders – ranging from small family plots, to ancient churchyards, to large rural cemeteries. The vast majority of these exist as unmarked and redeveloped burial places that are...