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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Tulocay Cemetery research project is digitizing over 150 years of historical death and plot sale records for the largest cemetery in Napa Valley, California from 1859 to present day. The project’s goal is to transcribe the records to a digital format and map the location of the historic graves so they may be easily accessed and...
Understanding Historic Health: How 19th Century San Francisco Death Records Supplement Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historic records and archaeological data provide important sources of data for testing hypotheses and understanding human health in 19th century populations. Nineteenth century San Francisco coroners kept detailed death records for all people, including infants and children, who passed...