Reconstructing History Embedded in Tampa’s Urban Core: Photogrammetry of the 1800s Estuary Cemetery from Fort Brooke, FL

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Destruction is inherent in archaeology, but in the ever-changing urban landscape this destruction can erase a site’s place and memory within the landscape, often by compliance archaeologists making way for new development. In recent years archaeologists have utilized photogrammetry to document at risk sites and even the process of excavation itself, which has greatly decreased the data lost during site destruction. But when dealing with sites of historic violence, such as those related to American expansionism, it is important to preserve a site’s place within the landscape so that the memory of the actions it is implicated in are continuously remembered by modern people. In this paper we discuss how archaeologist can utilize photogrammetry to preserve a site’s place in the urban landscape, using examples from the excavation of the Estuary Cemetery, a historic site related to the Fort Brooke military installation during the American conquest of Florida.

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• Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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