In Remembrance Archaeology and Death

Subjects:

• Anthropology » Archaeology
• Anthropology » Physical Anthropology
• Health/Medicine » Public Health

Reviews:

• This collection of essays is a positive contribution to the growing discussion in anthropology of biohistory of recent humans.
  —American Journal of Physical Anthropology
• This book provides an interesting, balanced, and useful introduction to recent issues and studies in historical bioarcheology. Aimed at both archeologists and the general public, In Remembrance presents professional standards in field and lab analysis in an unobtrusive and yet cogent manner. Each chapter is clearly written with a minimum of jargon, in a style that affords the maximum benefit to laymen and professionals alike. Indeed, the clarity of writing in this book should serve as a model for future researchers attempting to reach multiple audiences.
  —Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society

Table of Contents:

• Preface by Nicholas F. Bellantoni and David A. Poirier
• Introduction
• New Perspectives on the Past by Douglas Owsley
• Disenfranchised Peoples
• The First African Baptist Church Cemeteries: African-American Mortality and Trauma in Antebellum Philadelphia by Thomas A.J. Crist et al.
• Babies in the Well: Insight into Deviant Behavior in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia by Sharon Ann Burnston
• Folly Island: An African American Union Troop Cemetery in South Carolina by Ted A. Rathbun and Steven D. Smith
• Recovering Lost Minds: Evidence of Insanity in a Late 19th Century Almshouse Skeletal Sample by Shawn M. Phillips
• The Invisible People: The Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace by Sharon Ann Burnston
• Cedar Grove: African American History in Rural Arkansas by Amy Maish, Jerome C. Rose and Murray K. Marks
• Trauma and Desecration
• Buried Prisoners in 18th Century Quebec by Gisèle Piédalue and Jerome S. Cybulski
• Rescue, Research and Reburial: Walton Family Cemetery, Griswold, Connecticut by Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Paul S. Sledzik and David A. Poirier
• Little Bighorn: Identification of Human Remains from the Custer National Cemetery by Douglas Scott and P. Willey
• Forensic Archaeology at the Chauncey Family Crypt, Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut by Nicholas F. Bellantoni and David G. Cooke
• Disaster and Relief Efforts at the Hardin Cemetery by Paul S. Sledzik and David R. Hunt
• Resource Guide
• Locating and Excavating Historic Burials by Douglas W. Owsley, Brooks B. Ellwood and Malcolm L. Richardson
• Documentary and Comparative Scholarly Research: Context in Cemetery Archaeology by Edward L. Bell
• In Partnership: Descendants, Friends-of-the-Dead, and Archaeologists by David A. Poirier and Nicholas Bellantoni
• Index