Cemeteries (Other Keyword)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gravestones and monuments from settler burial grounds penetrate the North American landscape; early cemeteries function as historic resources in a myriad of ways, serving as records of ancestry, vernacular art, sociocultural and religious sentiments, and demography. Despite public interest in these sites, most struggle to preserve, maintain, and rehabilitate their spaces and markers....
In Pursuit of the Mythical Master List: The Efforts to Make 90 years of Cemetery Surveys Useful in North Carolina, U.S.A. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With the rise in the popularity of genealogy and the threats of increased development and climate change, historic cemeteries have come to the forefront off public attention. To better support the citizens of North Carolina, the NC Office of State Archaeology has embarked on a project to assemble previously completed state, county,...
Inclusive Collaboration: A Model for Archaeologists Working with Descendant Communities (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The tensions resulting from American archaeology’s post-colonial roots are exposed in unique ways during the archaeological investigation of burial places associated with enslavement. In the aftermath of the investigation of Manhattan’s African Burial Ground, advisory...
Limbus Infantum: Shrouds, Safety Pins, and the Materiality of Personhood in Juvenile Burials at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2018)
Of the over 2000 individuals recovered from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC), approximately one-third are juveniles under the age of 20. Age categories for the MCIG juveniles were established using a variety of dental, osteometric and nonosteometric methods. The example of juvenile lot 10007, (dental age assessment 5 postnatal months, osteometric age 39 fetal weeks) recovered with diaper fabric, safety pins, and a small angel pin, suggests that a more refined look at juvenile age...
New World Families: Building Identity in Transatlantic Mortuary Contexts (2013)
This paper will explore the impact of colonization on family identity and heritage through the analysis of mortuary material culture in the United Kingdom and the Caribbean from the 17th to 20th centuries. Although colonial families are traditionally represented as static, immobile and passive, a more systematic and dynamic understanding of this period of unprecedented movement and interaction can be accessed through alternative sources of history. Cemeteries provide such an opportunity because...
Out of the Box: Thinking of Cemeteries as Collections Storage Facilities (2018)
When the archaeological community thinks of collections and collections based-research our minds frequently leap to serried ranks of boxes and the assemblages housed within them. It is less common for our minds to leap to cemeteries, yet the collections of tombstones located in them, cumulatively represent one of the largest datasets utilized by historical archaeologists. This paper considers whether a shift in perspective is needed. Instead of regarding cemeteries as landscapes replete with...
Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed Beech Tree Development, Prince George's County, Maryland (1999)
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Phase II Archaeological Studies: Prado Basin and the Lower Santa Ana River (1985)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Pulpits and Bones: African-American Vistas of Action, Innovation, and Tradition (2018)
The cultural landscapes of African-American communities in the nineteenth century were often anchored with a church, cemetery, and school. Sectarian and secular dynamics interacted in shaping the terrains of those social networks. This presentation explores such developments in the impacts of religious beliefs, practices, and congregations on the strategic locations and configurations of churches and cemeteries before and after the Civil War, with a focus on the Midwest region. For example, the...
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...
Remembering the Raj: Kolkata India's South Park Street Cemetery, Creating and Commemorating Anglo-Indian Society (2016)
This paper examines the commemorative iconography of Kolkata India's South Park Street Cemetery. Established in 1767, the South Park Street Cemetery is the resting place of the leadership of England's colonial efforts in Bengal. It contains over 1600 monuments and likely many more burials. These monuments range from enormous masonry pyramids to scaled down Greek and Roman temples, and Hindu and Mughal inspired tombs. Drawing upon an international commemorative vocabulary combining classical...
Research Approaches to Abandoned Cemeteries in Wisconsin. (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The State of Wisconsin has a Burial Sites Preservation Law where no human burial site, including cemeteries and Native American mound groups, may be disturbed without authorization from the director of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Requests to disturb within the boundaries of a burial site will often require additional research, especially in cases involving abandoned...
The Sinking of the Sacred: North Carolina’s Coastal Historic Cemetery Survey to Address Heritage Loss, Descendant Communities, and Cemetery Preservation (2022)
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 Coastal Historic Cemetery Survey Project undertaken by the NC Office of State Archaeology (OSA) is designed to identify, document, and assess the condition of historical cemeteries on state lands in nine coastal NC counties impacted by 2018’s Hurricanes Florence and Michael. Although all cemeteries remain threatened in the...
Sites of Memory: Historic African American Cemeteries in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida. (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study centers on four historical African American cemeteries in Jacksonville, Florida: Memorial, Sunset Memorial, Pinehurst, and Mount Olive. Collectively, these cemeteries contain thousands of African American burials. Contrary to the local government’s critique of these cemeteries as ‘abandoned and neglected’ spaces; interviews with...
A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Death and Bereavement in Late 19th Century Central Florida (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mortuary Monuments and Archaeology: Current Research" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cemeteries are important reservoirs of historic and cultural information, and the anthropological study of these spaces provide insights into their religious, symbolic, and cultural significance. Cemeteries also give insight into health, morbidity, and mortality in the past. This research examines two late-19th century...
A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Examining Nineteenth-Century Cemetery Relocations in Roxbury, Massachusetts (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reinterpreting New England’s Past For the Future" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Kearsarge-Warren Avenue Cemetery and the St. Joseph’s Cemetery were nineteenth-century burial grounds located approximately one-third of a mile apart in the Roxbury section of Boston. Both were in use for several decades: Kearsarge-Warren Avenue from 1818 to 1883 as a Protestant parish and later a City-owned cemetery, and...
"A Taste for Being Well Lodged After Their Decease:" Preliminary Thoughts on Jamaican Cemeteries (2018)
This paper provides a brief introduction to Jamaica's 18th and 19th century burial grounds using select examples from Port Royal, Falmouth, Spanish Town, and plantation burial grounds, especially the Orange Valley estate. Documentary sources relating to burial and commemoration are also examined. The paper argues that Jamaican gravemarkers clearly reflect the social stratification present in colonial Jamaica, and highlight the great wealth that sugar planting brought to the island. Jamaican...
"They Had Perfect Knowledge of…This Offensive Place": Burial Grounds and Archaeological Human Remains in Richmond’s Public Discourse (2016)
In Richmond, Virginia, racial discrimination is clearly visible in the condition of historical burial grounds. Efforts to reclaim these sacred sites have generated controversy surrounding the proposed Revitalize RVA development adjacent to the city’s oldest cemetery for people of color. Recent outrage, activism, and attempts at dialogue have also occurred in relation to some archaeological collections of human remains from Richmond, while other such collections have received comparatively little...
They Walked and Sleep in Beauty: African Americans and the Rural Cemetery Movement in the Midwest (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of African American cemeteries and burial customs from an archaeological context has been growing more prevalent in the last two decades, but most focus is confined to the search of “Africanisms” in burial practices and the issues concerning the preservation of burial grounds, particularly those belonging to enslaved and...
Underground Then as Now: Seeking Traces of the Underground Railroad in the Mount Gilead AME Church Cemetery (2015)
Mount Gilead AME Church in southeastern Pennsylvania formed the heart of a rural African American community throughout much of the 19th century. Oral history associates it with the Underground Railroad, but with little specificity. Since most of the church's congregation has dispersed over the past century, its extant cemetery is the main location where much of the church's history can be reconstructed. This study uses spatial, demographic, and GPR data from the cemetery as well as archival...