skip to content
In remembrance : archaeology and death Preview this item
ClosePreview this item
  • Preview this Item (Questia)

In remembrance : archaeology and death

Author: David A Poirier; Nicholas F Bellantoni
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David A Poirier; Nicholas F Bellantoni
ISBN: 0897894197 9780897894197
OCLC Number: 34651595
Description: xv, 247 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: New perspectives on the past / Douglas W. Owsley --
PART I: DISENFRANCHISED PEOPLES: The first African Baptist Church cemeteries: African-American mortality and trauma in antebellum Philadelphia / Thomas A.J. Crist, Daniel G. Roberts, Reginald H. Pitts, John P. McCarthy, and Michael Parrington --
Babies in the well: an insight into deviant behavior in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia / Sharon Ann Burnston --
Folly Island: an African American Union brigade cemetery in South Carolina / Ted A. Rathbun and Steven D. Smith --
Recovering lost minds: evidence of insanity in a late Nineteenth-Century almshouse skeletal sample / Sharon M. Phillips --
The invisible poeple: the cemetery at Catoctin Furnace / Sharon Ann Burnston --
Cedar Grove: African-American hstory in rural Arkansas / Amy Maish, Jerome C. Rose, and Murray K. Marks --
PART II: TRAUMA AND DESECRATION: Buried prisoners in Eighteenth-Century Quebec / Gisele Piedalue and Jerome S. Cybulski --
Rescue, research, and reburial: Walton Family Cemetery, Griswold, Connecticut / Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Paul S. Sledzik, and David A. Poirier --
Little Bighorn: human remains from the Custer National Cemetery / Douglas Scott and P. Willey --
Forensic archaeology at the Chauncey Family Crypt, Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut / Nicholas F. Ballantoni and David G. Cooke --
Disaster and relief efforts at theHardin Cemetery / Paul S. Sledzik and David R. Hunt --
PART III: RESOURCE GUIDE: Locating and excavating historic burials / Douglas W. Owsley, Brooks B. Ellwood, and Malcolm L. Richardson --
Documentary and comparative scholarly research: context in cemetery archaeology / Edward L. Bell --
In partnership: discendants, friends-of-the-dead, and archaeologists / David A. Poirier and Nicholas F. Bellantoni.
Responsibility: edited by David A. Poirier and Nicholas F. Bellantoni.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.