Mortuary Monuments and Archaeology: Current Research
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Mortuary Monuments and Archaeology: Current Research," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Since Dethlefsen and Deetz published their seminal works on New England graveyard monuments, archaeologists have consistently contributed to the multi-disciplinary field of memorial studies, providing anthropological and wider comparative perspectives against the often more contextual, particularistic studies of art historians and folk life scholars. This session considers the diversity of both data sets and approaches to memorials by archaeologists today, and thereby seeks to place the results of such studies within the wider concerns of historical archaeology. Given the non-destructive fieldwork involved in the study of mortuary monuments this is an excellent field in which to encourage student and community groups to participate in engaging with historical archaeology in a particular locality, but on the other hand large-scale research and CRM projects can enable study of very large data sets to examine questions on a different scale.
Other Keywords
Cemetery •
Memorial •
death •
Monument •
Recording •
CRM •
Mortuary Studies •
Cemeteries •
Unmarked Graves •
Gravestones
Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
Modern •
Nineteenth Century •
18th - 20th Century •
1918 •
Contemporary •
Post-medieval
Geographic Keywords
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) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
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- Documents (9)
- All the Vaults of the City Cemeteries are Piled High with Coffins: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (2020)
- The Archaeology of Pet Taxidermy (2020)
- DEBS: Using Digital Tools in Graveyard Recording (2020)
- An International Mortuary Monument Recording System - From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies (2020)
- Is Anyone Out There? Survey and Research Techniques for CRM Projects when Burial Grounds/Cemeteries Border Construction Projects. (2020)
- Mourning and Remembering: Memorials at a Pet Cemetery in Oulu, Finland (2020)
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t (2020)
- The Rural Cemetery Movement and Collective Memory (2020)
- A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Death and Bereavement in Late 19th Century Central Florida (2020)