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.
Other Keywords
Historic •
Historical Archaeology •
Mortuary archaeology •
Zooarchaeology •
Health •
ancient DNA •
Mass Spectrometry •
Ethnohistory/History •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management
Geographic Keywords
North America: Northeast and Midatlantic •
North America •
United States of America (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Department of Guadeloupe (Country) •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Antigua and Barbuda (Country) •
Turks and Caicos Islands (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-6 of 6)
- Documents (6)
- Funerary Hardware in 18th and 19th Century Philadelphia: What Can Be Used as an Indication of Wealth from the Arch Street Site? (2019)
- Lipidomic Analysis of Arch Street Project Brain Tissue (2019)
- 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)
- Putting a Face on History: Using Forensic Facial Reconstructions and Imagery in the Arch Street Project (2019)
- Searching for Biomarkers in Dental Calculus in the Arch Street Project Skeletal Remains (2019)
- Ten Right-Sided Sheep Femora and Other Peculiarities: What To Make of the Arch Street Faunal Assemblage (2019)