An Investigation of Demographic and Spatial Patterns at the Fort Huachuca Cemetery, Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper investigates the development of the Fort Huachuca Cemetery, an active burial ground first established in the late-nineteenth century on a military post in southern Arizona. The cemetery is known as a final resting place for a unique combination of individuals including Apache Scouts, Buffalo Soldiers, other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century military members, non-military early pioneers, and modern-day military personnel. In this study, I use archival data in combination with a survey of the layout of the cemetery to shed light on cemetery demographics and spatial distribution. The data derived from this research contextualize the cemetery in the historical-period development of Fort Huachuca and Euromerican settlement in southern Arizona.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24045