Book
The archaeology of American cemeteries and gravemarkers
Languages
Text in English.
Publication Information
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Physical Description
xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents
- Introduction : American cemetery studies as above- and belowground archaeology
- Belowground archaeology : ethics and science
- The science in belowground archaeology
- Beyond death's heads and cherubs : early American gravemarkers
- Transformations in the design of nineteenth- and twentieth-century cemeteries
- Ethnicity, race, and class within nineteenth- and twentieth-century cemeteries
- "He being dead yet speaketh" (Hebrews 14:4) : conclusions.