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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Founded in 1855, the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum saw 30,000 patients pass through its doors before the institution moved to a new facility in 1935. Vital expansion of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), located on the former asylum property, prompted historical and archaeological investigations of the now-unmarked Asylum Hill...
Not Forgotten: Personal Touches in Mortuary Treatment at Asylum Hill (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1855 to 1935, the Mississippi State Asylum occupied a tract of land north of downtown Jackson. Graves discovered during construction in 1992 and 2012 on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus represent a burial ground established for patients who died in the asylum. The current cemetery excavation has found ample...
Perishable Disparity: Mortuary treatment in Baja California Sur (2015)
Missionary and explorer accounts document status differences in adornment, possession of ceremonial items, and body proportions in the marine foraging populations of the Cape Region, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The antecedent and concurrent Las Palmas Culture (ca. A.D. 1200 to 1700) was originally defined by William Massey based on excavation of small exclusive-use mortuary caves. Each cave held one or two primary interments and several secondary bundle burials representing both sexes and all...