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This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in Poolesville, Maryland just west of Seneca Creek is the Seneca Stonecutter’s Cemetery—locally referred to as the “Clipper” Cemetery in reference to a surname on several of the headstones. While there are no trails or markers leading to the cemetery which lies on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, this cemetery has long been recognized as an early African...
Early Medieval Landscapes of the Dead: the monumental Pictish barrows of North-East Scotland (2015)
During the 5th and 6th centuries the dead become more visible in the landscapes of eastern Scotland. Elaborate square and circular burial mounds were constructed to commemorate certain members of society, possibly a newly emerging elite. These barrows are often sited along ridges and form grouped, sometimes linear distributions in the landscape. Few have been excavated and most are known through aerial photography alone.This paper presents some of the results from a project that consolidated and...
Environmental Analysis of the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg (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. In 1805 the congregation of Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church established their first permanent building on a marginal piece of land within the city limits. The church, composed of enslaved and free Blacks, worshipped in two different structures here for 150 years and established a cemetery that was used in the first half of the...
Ethics In A Small Town: Columbia Street Cemetery Project In Springfield, Ohio (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Springfield, Ohio, the Columbia Street Cemetery (CSC) Project is a joint initiative by the Turner Foundation, concerned citizens of Springfield, and Wittenberg University’s History and Archaeology programs. The aim of the project is to document and study the city’s oldest cemetery, which dates to the 1820s. The cemetery sits at the center of the city’s downtown, which is part of...
The Evolution of Mortuary Artifact Assemblages from Historic Cemeteries in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States (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. Mortuary artifact assemblages, including materials used to mark grave locations, hardware used in the construction of coffins and caskets, and items used to clothe and decorate the dead, range temporally, geographically, and culturally based on a variety of factors, including manufacturing advancements, access to goods, and...
The Evolution of the Arch Street Project (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Arch Street Project: Multidisciplinary Research of a Philadelphia Cemetery" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In late 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that human remains were uncovered at a local construction site, 218 Arch Street, formerly the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (FBCP) cemetery. Over the course of 2017 three phases of excavation ranging from extreme salvage to controlled CRM excavation took...
Examining Child Mortality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Northern Idaho (2018)
This poster documents infant and child mortality in northern Idaho during the late 19th and early 20th centuries using historic cemeteries as a starting point for data collection. This project involved locating and photographing the oldest headstones associated with children and infants interred in Idaho’s Moscow Cemetery. The sample was limited to children and infants under 11 years old who died prior to 1921. By examining Moscow Cemetery’s headstones, the project researchers were able to...
Families Inside and Out: Family Relationships and Institutional Healthcare at a Leper Hospital in St. Croix, USVI (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1888 to 1954, the Danish colonial and later US governments of St. Croix operated a leper hospital on the island. Residents were often admitted for extended periods of time with many living there for decades prior to death and burial in the Christiansted Cemetery. Throughout their residency, patients likely formed family-like relationships within the hospital community and maintained...
First a Burial Ground, then a Parade Ground, then a Park, then a Revelation (2018)
Washington Square Park in New York City’s historic Greenwich Village is a prime example of a burying ground that is now a beloved urban park. In 2005, renovations to this historical park in a Landmark district required archaeology. That the park was a former Potter’s Field, by definition, the final resting place of the indigent and unknown, was recognized by the New York City Parks Department and local history buffs. The question was, did burials from the cemetery years (1797 to 1825) remain?...
From Paper to Stone: Liverpool Stonemasons’ Illustrations, their Memorials, and the National and Transatlantic Trade in Cemetery Monuments (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During research into Liverpool’s nineteenth-century cemeteries, archives held by Liverpool City Council relating to Toxteth Park Cemetery (established in 1856) were catalogued, resulting in the discovery of historically significant documents. Alongside early plans of...
Gainer Historical Cemetery: A Modern Reconnection to a "Lost" Cultural Landscape Not Actually Forgotten. (2013)
The African American Gainer Historical Cemetery is located along the border of Washington and Bay Counties in Florida’s panhandle. An African American community has utilized this liminal space since the arrival of settlers in 1825. The cemetery contains evidence of the persistent use of old African-style customs, such as the utilization of traditional funerary material culture. Conflict and migration in the 19th and 20th centuries physically distanced the freedmen and their descendants from...
German Gravemarkers and Cultural Retention (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Germans from the Palatinate region in Germany continually immigrated to various regions of the United States from the 1720s until 1910s. Particularly significant regions are Western Pensylvania, the Missouri River Valley in Central Missouri, and the Dakotas. By comparing gravestone symbology and inscriptions in these three regions, I was...
The Grave Diggers’ Lament: Early 20 th Century Solutions to a Loose Sediment Predicament (2017)
Early 20th century excavators had to contend with loose, sandy sediments when digging the graves at the Scott Family Cemetery in Dallas. More than a century later, archaeologists had to find solutions for the same problem while moving that cemetery. Even with advances in technology and methodology, the pitfalls and solutions were surprisingly similar. The archaeologists found evidence that the original excavators shored the walls with wood, stepped the shafts, and had to dig the holes larger...
Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Portions of the Old White Meeting House Cemetery (2007)
"In June 2007, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey of portions of the Old White Meeting House Cemetery in an effort to mitigate any adverse effects on archaeological resources that may result from the proposed widening of SC Route 642 (Dorchester Road). This work was conducted through Davis & Floyd, Inc., for the Dorchester County Sales Tax Authority (DCTA) in advance of road improvement activities along this portion of SC Route 642. This...
Guidelines for Creating a Typology for Mass-Produced 19th and 20th Century Burial Container Hardware (2016)
The analysis and historical study of burial container hardware and other mortuary artifacts is crucial in establishing a useful discourse between the multiple lines of evidence recorded and recovered in historical cemetery investigations. Exact identification of types and styles of burial container hardware is vital in defining the chronology of burial, which is necessary in situations where grave markers have been lost or moved from their original locations. In addition, variations in hardware...
Hebrew Inscription Preservation in a Jewish Cemetery (2017)
Inscription preservation and study is an important part of heritage and historical archaeology. Particular to Jewish cemeteries and their communities is the presence of Hebrew inscriptions such as blessings, or the deceased’s Hebrew name. Our project focused specifically on comparing rates of weathering between Hebrew and English, and we hypothesized that Hebrew inscriptions decayed faster than English ones. We estimated that Hebrew inscription would decay faster because of the curvature of the...
Historic Cultural Perspectives Through Cemetery Landscape (2017)
The Jewish cemetery in Victoria, BC is home to approximately 300 interments and is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Canada and the second largest in western Canada. This study explores the Jewish community of Victoria during its earlier period of use from 1914 – 1918 using four individuals from a variety of economic, social, political, and gender specific backgrounds. The goal of this research was to investigate the biographies of four people buried at Emanu-El cemetery who died during the...
Historic Landscape Inventory for U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (Legacy 94-210)
This historic context of West Point emphasizes changes in its landscape and identifies the different stages of landscape change as defined by military mission and historical process, enabling the establishment of accurate historic district boundaries. The document provides guidance on the development of a historic landscape management plan.
Historic Landscape Inventory for U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York - Report (Legacy 94-210) (2000)
This historic context of West Point emphasizes changes in its landscape and identifies the different stages of landscape change as defined by military mission and historical process, enabling the establishment of accurate historic district boundaries. The document provides guidance on the development of a historic landscape management plan.
Homesteading on Salado Creek: A Case Study of Mexican-Anglo Settlement in San Antonio (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A native of Kentucky, Young Perry Alsbury moved to Texas in the 1820s. Here, he served in the Texas Revolution as a member of Deaf Smith's spy company and participated in burning the bridge over Vince's Bayou during the Battle of San Jacinto to prevent the retreat of Santa...
Hunted Deer and Buried Foxes: Fauna from the Middle Epipaleolithic Site of ‘Uyun al-Hammam (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Levantine Epipaleolithic (ca. 23,000—11,500 cal BP) saw an explosion of behavioral innovation and diversification in hunter-gatherer groups. One of these new behaviors was the development and spread of repetitively used and reused burial grounds or cemeteries. The Middle Epipaleolithic site of ‘Uyun al-Hammam in the Wadi Ziqlab area of Northern Jordan...
Immigration and Economics in Newton and Huxley Cemeteries in southwestern Wisconsin (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Wisconsin cemeteries exhibit changes in the immigration and economic structures throughout the state’s history. Newton and Huxley Cemeteries located in southwestern Wisconsin are prime examples of how these changes are exhibited. Major nineteenth century migrant groups arriving to the area were from the eastern...
The Incidental Discovery Of An Abandoned Early 20th Century Cemetery (2017)
After the Civil War, Jack Scott and his family homesteaded in the Trinity River floodplain in West Dallas. He was a farmer who died in 1903 and was buried in a 30 foot square family cemetery that was dedicated at that time. The last interment was in 1931 and the cemetery was abandoned. Years later, four feet of the overlying alluvial sand was removed and a large borrow pit was created. The pit was subsequently filled with construction trash. The unmarked cemetery was included in an urban...
Interpreting Interment: An Analysis of Orientation in Harrington Cemetery, Delaware Graveshafts (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. Excavation around a mid-nineteenth century family cemetery revealed a much more complex series of graveshafts than assumed from the surface. In this presentation we analyze the orientation and distribution of approximately ninety unmarked graveshafts found in a cultivated field surrounding the extant cemetery.
An Investigation of Demographic and Spatial Patterns at the Fort Huachuca Cemetery, Arizona (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the development of the Fort Huachuca Cemetery, an active burial ground first established in the late-nineteenth century on a military post in southern Arizona. The cemetery is known as a final resting place for a unique combination of individuals including Apache Scouts, Buffalo Soldiers, other...