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The Black Bottom Memorial Cemetery is an African American community cemetery in Belhaven, North Carolina which was in use throughout the 20th century. Mapping and surface survey of the cemetery revealed a large number of burials with significant, temporally linked, variation in burial practices. Multiple factors including economic status and the effects of segregation and other discriminatory practices are suggested as contributing to this variation. Comparison of the Black Bottom Memorial...
Facing the Past: Forensic Facial Reconstruction at Catoctin Furnace and its Role in Public Outreach (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Retrospective: 50 Years Of Research And Changing Narratives At Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Forensic facial reconstructions are an effective tool for communicating historical narratives and information gleaned from human skeletal remains. The method relies on the relationship between the underlying architecture of the skull and the tissues of the face. Facial reconstructions...
Forgotten Families of the Furnace: Ancestral Origins and Genetic Relationships Reflected in Death (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Retrospective: 50 Years Of Research And Changing Narratives At Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2015, funding was awarded to the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society to provide data-grounded interpretation of a cemetery and its skeletal remains (circa 1790-1840) previously impacted by development. Phase I involved updated analysis, including assessments of demography, bone and...
Overview: Historic and Archaeological Resources Protection (HARP) Plan, Charleston Naval Weapons Station, South Carolina (1996)
This overview for the Historic and Archaeological Resources Protection Plan (HARP) for the Charleston Naval Weapons Station, Berkeley and Charleston Counties, South Carolina is designed to inventory known National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) resources, determine the general location of potential NRHP resources, and to evaluate the likelihood that future undertakings may affect such resources on property owned by the Naval Weapons Station, Charleston (henceforth referred to as the NWS for...
Rest Sweet Rest: Addressing the Challenges to Preserving African American Cemeteries in an Urban Environment (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1895, a group of trustees established Douglass Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, named in memory of Frederick Douglass and for Alexandria’s African American community. Over a century later, the cemetery faces several intersecting preservation issues that threaten the physical integrity of the site and the African...