Bioarchaeological and Archival Investigations of the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery Collection: A Progress Report
Author(s): Brooke L. Drew
Year: 2013
Summary
Continuing bioarchaeological and archival research on the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery collection is presented. As reported elsewhere, the beginning stages of a multidisciplinary analysis of this late 19th and early 20th century institutional cemetery has led to the identification of a number of the 1,649 individuals excavated. Included in this discussion will be new case studies that continue to demonstrate not only the interpretive potential of an integrated archaeological, osteological and documentary approach, but also reveal the life histories of a few of the poor and disenfranchised individuals interned in this early Potter’s Field.
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Bioarchaeological and Archival Investigations of the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery Collection: A Progress Report. Brooke L. Drew. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428680)
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Keywords
General
bioarchaeology
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Cemeteries
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Institutions
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
late 19th and early 20th centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 160