Giving the Dead a New Life: Cemeteries and Bioarchaeology

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

Through the study of cemeteries and human remains, historical archaeologists can provide a better understanding of the life of the long deceased. This session explores different ways of looking at the dead, from the analysis of grave goods, mass graves and mortuary practices to the detailed analysis of skeletal remains.

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Action, Compromise, and Transformation: Mortuary Genealogies and Social Change in the Virgin Islands and Barbados (2014)

Death, Race, and Childhood: An Examination of Toys as Grave Inclusions (2014)

An Examination of Possible Mass Burials in Pensacola, Florida’s Historic St. Michael’s Cemetery (2014)

Examining African-American Burial Choices through Jewelry at Freedman’s Cemetery, Dallas, Texas 1869-1907 (2014)

The Impact of Preservation on the Determination of Sex from Human Remains in Archaeology (2014)

Invasive Methods in Bioarchaeology: An Ethical issue? A Case Study from St. Matthew’s Cemetery, Québec (2014)

Keeping in touch: tombs in the urban space of Swahili towns, East Africa (2014)

‘La Gripe’ Among the Navajos in the Lower San Juan River Basin (2014)

The Text and the Body: The Case of the Reverend Henry G. Ludlow and the Remains of the Congregants of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church (2014)