Monuments, Commemoration, and Heritage: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Cemeteries and Commemoration
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2018
This session focuses on the archaeology of cemeteries and commemorative sites, e.g. monuments, memorials, and places of remembrance. It brings together scholars working on issues relating to memory and commemoration in the United States and internationally. Studies, focus on iconography, economics, and remembrance. Particular attention is paid to changing perspectives on who and what should be remembered.
Other Keywords
Cemetery •
Ethnicity •
Civil War •
Cemeteries •
Monuments •
Spanish Colonies •
Funerary Practices •
Plantation Archaeology •
Memory •
Memorialization
Temporal Keywords
20th Century •
Late 19th Century •
Mid-19th Century •
18th-19th Centuries •
19th century, Civil War •
18th century, Contemporary Era •
1870s-2010 •
17th-19th c
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 1-8 of 8)
- Documents (8)
- Confronting Confederate Narratives: Archaeology at the Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park (2018)
- Memory and Engagement with Sacred Ground: the many publics of Mount Vernon's African-American Cemetery (2018)
- Monuments And Memories: Irish, Polish, And Haudenosaunee Engagements With The Heritage Narratives Of The Revolutionary War (2018)
- Quarantined in the Promised Land: Honoring the Living and the Dead at the Staten Island Marine Hospital (2018)
- Remembering the "Lost Cause:" The Power of the Memorial Landscape and Cornerstone "Relics" from Louisville’s Confederate Monument (2018)
- "A Taste for Being Well Lodged After Their Decease:" Preliminary Thoughts on Jamaican Cemeteries (2018)
- Three Ways of Remembering World War 1: the Sledmere Memorials, Yorkshire, England (2018)
- Through the Priest’s Ear: Examining the History and Archaeology of San Ignacio’s Jesuit Church (1610-2017) –Bogotá, Colombia (2018)