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  • CENTRAL: Local History
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The archaeology of American cemeteries and gravemarkers

Call Number

  • H 393.1 B346 (CEN)

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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.

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