berghahn New York · Oxford

Contents

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Harold Mytum and Richard Veit

Part I: Exploring Surface, Subsurface and Documentary Evidence

Chapter 1. Applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Record and Interpret Mortuary Monuments
Harold Mytum

Chapter 2. Reevaluating Empty Sections Within Historic Cemeteries: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Mark Nonestied

Chapter 3. Is Anyone Out There? Survey and Research Techniques for CRM Projects when Burial Grounds/Cemeteries Border Construction Projects
Mickey Dobbin and Bob Dean

Chapter 4. Who Lies Where? A Land and Air-based Survey Methodology for Documenting Historic Cemeteries
Richard W. Hunter, James S. Lee III, Alexis Alemy and Evan Mydlowski

Part II: Field Recording of Monuments and Burial Ground Management

Chapter 5. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Evaluating Earlier Cemetery Monument Records through Modern Recording
Anne G. Giesecke and Dan Steffen

Chapter 6. An International Mortuary Monument Recording System - From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies
Harold Mytum

Chapter 7. “As Old as Pompeii or Herculaneum”: Kolkata, India’s South Park Street Cemetery, An Example of Rapid Recording
Richard Veit

Chapter 8. Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act
Melissa A Timo

Chapter 9. Mourning and Remembering Deceased Companion Species: Mortuary Monuments and Graves for Horses in Finland
Tiina Äikäs, Janne Ikäheimo, Tuija Kirkinen, Karin Hemmann, and Päivi Laine

Chapter 10. Preserving the Rainbow Bridge: Recording Pet Cemeteries
Eric Tourigny

Part III: Archiving and Dissemination

Chapter 11. Discovering England's Burial Spaces (DEBS): Using Digital Tools in Graveyard Recording and Archiving
Julian D Richards, Toby Pillatt, Debbie Maxwell, Gareth Beale and Nicole Smith

Chapter 12. The Cemetery Surveyor Application: Non-paper data Collection Methods in Luxembourg Burial Grounds
Christoph K. Streb, Cyrille Médard de Chardon, and Thomas Kolnberger

Chapter 13. Burial Grounds on the Web: Reviewing the Role of Digital Data beyond Genealogy, and how Historical Archaeology can play its part
Anna Fairley Nielsson

Chapter 14. Burial Ground Recording and Analysis: Where Next?
Harold Mytum and Richard Veit

Index

Innovation and Implementation

Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination

Edited by Harold Mytum and Richard Veit

284 pages, 67 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-045-9 Hb Published (July 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80539-046-6 eBook

Details

“…the chapters provide a clear description of historic cemetery archaeological practices, giving individuals a better idea of potential archaeological projects and careers and the challenges faced by those in the field.” • Heather Garvin, Des Moines University

“This is a timely, well-organized volume that focuses on new and updated approaches toward cemetery studies. The 14 chapters outline different but complimentary methodologies in cemetery studies and their application over a cross section of global locations.” • Nancy E. Tatarek, Ohio University

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Divided into three parts considering documentary research and recording of mortuary landscapes, reflections on memorial recording projects, and archiving and wider dissemination of data and interpretations. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials. Discussions therefore include how methodologies may or may not be applicable to both human and animal subjects.

Richard Veit is a Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University. His research interests include gravestones and burial grounds, early American material culture, vernacular architecture, and conflict archaeology.

Harold Mytum is Professor of Archaeology, University of Liverpool. His research interests include investigating identity and memory through settlement and mortuary evidence (17th-20th centuries) from Britain, Ireland and diasporic communities in North America and Australia. Current research includes RTI photography (reflectance transformation imaging), on historic graveyard memorials.

Subject: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

Area:

LC: CS22 .I66 2023

BISAC: SOC003000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Archaeology; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC036000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Death & Dying