Guidelines for Creating a Typology for Mass-Produced Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Burial Container Hardware

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The analysis and historical study of burial container hardware and other mortuary artifacts is crucial in establishing a useful discourse between the multiple lines of evidence recorded and recovered in historical cemetery investigations. Exact identification of types and styles of burial container hardware is vital in defining the chronology of burial, which is necessary in situations where grave markers have been lost or moved from their original locations. In addition, variations in hardware styles and forms, as well as materials of manufacture, indirectly reflect aspects of socioeconomic class, status, and/or community involvement in the funeral process. A full understanding of the burial container hardware exposes aspects of the deepening control of the professional funeral industry in the production and distribution of funeral merchandise during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39877.0