Fisk (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The chronology and legacy of Fisk’s metallic burial cases and the subsequent manufacturers of the 1850s has always been vexingly incomplete. A paucity of detailed primary sources and a significant omission in an early historical account, repeated in secondary sources, primarily Habenstein and Lamers (1955) and somewhat echoed by...
Who Was The Woman In The Iron Coffin? (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2011, the body of an African-American woman who had died from smallpox was discovered buried in a Fisk metallic burial case in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. Her level of preservation made it necessary to contact the Center for Disease Control to confirm that the virus was no longer viable. Analysis of the woman’s remains provided ground-breaking insights into how smallpox colonizes...