"Spirits of the Dead": The Historical Archaeology of Cemeteries and Commemoration

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2016

Other Keywords
Burials • Cemeteries • Gravestones • commemoration • war • Coffins • Historic Cemetery • Archaeology • Religion • Graveyard

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • 20th Century • Early 20th Century • 19th and 20th Century • 18th-19th Centuries • 18th - 19th Century • Colonial • 1600–1800 • 18th to 21st century • The Contact Period

Geographic Keywords
North America • Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-15 of 15)

Documents

African American Burials and Memorials in Colonial Williamsburg (2016)

African-American In-Ground Vaults: An Investigation Into Differential Burial Practices Identified Through A Public Archaeology Initiative (2016)

"At Rest," the Pima Lodge 10, Improved Order of Red Men Cemetery Plot in Tucson, Arizona. (2016)

Examining Cemetery Investigations At The First Presbyterian Church Of Elizabeth And First Reformed Dutch Church of New Brunswick, New Jersey: A Discussion Of Remembrance and Regulation (2016)

Excavating Personhood in the 19th-Century Graveyard (2016)

Headstone Material and Cultural Expression: An Archaeological Examination of North Carolina Grave Markers (2016)

Mariners’ gravestones in the Irish Sea region: memory and identity (2016)

Mourning for children in northern Finland – Funerary attire in the 17th–18th century contexts (2016)

"A New and Useful Burial Crypt:" The American Community Mausoleum (2016)

Reclaiming Memory of Those Unknown: An Archaeological Study of the African-American Cemetery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2016)

Remembering and Forgetting: Civil War Prisoner of War Camp Cemeteries in the North (2016)

Remembering the Raj: Kolkata India's South Park Street Cemetery, Creating and Commemorating Anglo-Indian Society (2016)

"A Sadness in Our Circle": Charting the Emotional Response to Norfolk’s 1855 Yellow Fever Epidemic (2016)

Toward a New Understanding of the French & Indian War: Implications of the Fort Hyndshaw Massacre (2016)

Upland Box Tombs: Southern Variants on a Popular Nineteenth Century Grave Cover (2016)