Lost Angeles: A Necrogeographical Analysis of the City of Angels' Forgotten Cemeteries

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "California: Post-1850s Consumption and Use Patterns in Negotiated Spaces" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Phases of development and renewal in the historic core of Los Angeles continue to reveal burials associated with the city’s defunct graveyards. The locations of these forgotten cemeteries reflects an evolving urban landscape, elucidaing changes in how people organize their social and physical landscapes over time. Employing use of archaeology and geography, transformations in time and space relationships of cemeteries can be studied in relation to changes in settlement patterns, transportation development, and land use. In this study, field survey and cartographic research are combined with use of GIS with the purpose of exploring factors that impact cemetery disuse and abandonment. This research includes efforts to locate and document relocated graves and associated gravestones.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• California: Post-1850s Consumption and Use Patterns in Negotiated Spaces

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 882