Interpreting Interment: An Analysis of Orientation in Harrington Cemetery, Delaware Graveshafts
Author(s): Amy E Broussard; Olivia Williamson
Year: 2022
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Excavation around a mid-nineteenth century family cemetery revealed a much more complex series of graveshafts than assumed from the surface. In this presentation we analyze the orientation and distribution of approximately ninety unmarked graveshafts found in a cultivated field surrounding the extant cemetery.
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Interpreting Interment: An Analysis of Orientation in Harrington Cemetery, Delaware Graveshafts. Amy E Broussard, Olivia Williamson. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA. 2022 ( tDAR id: 469517)
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Keywords
General
Analysis
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Cemetery
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orientation
Geographic Keywords
Mid-Atlantic
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology