Unmarked Graves (Other Keyword)

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All the Vaults of the City Cemeteries are Piled High with Coffins: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Nonestied.

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. A small plot of land in the southeast corner of Washington Monumental Cemetery was reputed to contain victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. In some respects, this area of the cemetery had characteristics of lots within Rural Cemeteries that were often located within the rear and reserved for those of less financial...

An Evaluation of Geophysical Survey Instruments for Detecting Unmarked Graves at the Mission Cemetery, Spalding, Idaho (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert K. Nickel.

In December 2000, a team working for the Midwest Archeological Center and Nez Perce National Historical Park evaluated the suitability of geophysical survey instruments for mapping the location of unmarked graves in the Mission Cemetery at Spalding, Idaho. A small grid was examined with a fluxgate magnetometer, a soil resistance meter, a conductivity meter, and a ground-penetrating radar unit. All but the conductivity meter detected positive anomalies in association with marked historic graves...

Finding the Children: Searching for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kisha Supernant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, announced that 215 potential unmarked graves were located near the Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar conducted by archaeologists. While this was not the first announcement of...

Florida's Unmarked Human Burial Bill (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James J. Miller.

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.

A Geophysical Survey at the Thomas Stone House (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Bevan.

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Learning From (Un)Marked Graves: The Evalutation of Captive and Freed African and African American Mortuary Practices (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Evans. Jamie Evans. Mary Katherine Brown. Chiara Torrini. Kimberly Kasper.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper investigates the unmarked cemeteries of the captive and emancipated individuals at the Cedar Grove Plantation and surrounding Antebellum plantations in western Tennessee. The previous research conducted at Cedar Grove Plantation by Rhodes College focused on the daily lives and households of the captive African and...