Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The human remains discovered at 218 Arch St, formerly the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia’s cemetery, provide an unprecedented glimpse into the city’s community from the colonial period to the early republic. Research efforts surrounding the excavation and analysis of the remains has been dubbed "The Arch Street Project" and has drawn together a multidisciplinary collaborative of academics and professionals willing to lend their expertise. This session presents several of the on-going research projects stemming from the Arch Street material. The synthesis of these projects into a final interpretation offers a fuller and broader picture of this unique site and sets a model for future bioarchaeological research.
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ancient DNA •
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Subsistence and Foodways •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management
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Funerary Hardware in 18th and 19th Century Philadelphia: What Can Be Used as an Indication of Wealth from the Arch Street Site? (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cemetery of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (ca. 1702-1859) was excavated in 2017. Almost 500 remains and associated material culture highlight the lives of Philadelphia’s early citizens during pre and post-colonial eras. Individual graves offer multiple lines of evidence from which to...
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Lipidomic Analysis of Arch Street Project Brain Tissue (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Arch Street Project provided desiccated brain tissue recovered from a cemetery uncovered in Philadelphia, PA to the DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine Metabolomics Unit. As the Arch Street cemetery burials predate chemical fixation funerary practices, analysis of biological soft tissue...
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The Patient Work of Patient History: The Creation of Medical Records for Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Interments at the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia Burial Ground (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As of Fall 2018, the remains of approximately 500 individuals have been recovered from a disturbed burial ground site at 218 Arch Street in the historic "Old City" district of Philadelphia. These are a fraction of the larger interred population. The Arch Street Project’s historical research team...
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Putting a Face on History: Using Forensic Facial Reconstructions and Imagery in the Arch Street Project (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will discuss the application of forensic art and 3-D facial reconstruction (in clay) that was conducted on selected skull replicas made from the Arch Street salvage cemetery site. These reconstructions help to "put a face" on the people who lived in Philadelphia between the 18th to...
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Searching for Biomarkers in Dental Calculus in the Arch Street Project Skeletal Remains (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The human remains from the Arch Street assemblage offer a unique opportunity to use nondestructive sampling techniques to study the population from the later 18th to early 19th century of Philadelphia. Many of the human remains contain at least partial dentition with calculus deposits present. The...
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Ten Right-Sided Sheep Femora and Other Peculiarities: What To Make of the Arch Street Faunal Assemblage (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1860, a concerned party claimed that neighboring tenement dwellers used the cemetery of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia as their personal dumping ground, leaving behind ‘refuse of their domestic economy’ in the form of material culture and food waste. In 2017, salvage archaeology...