Uncovering identity in mortuary analysis
Subtitle: community-sensitive methods for identifying group affiliation in historical cemeteries
By: Michael Heilen, editor
Series: Statistical Research, Inc
Publisher: Left Coast Press ; Tuscon : SRI Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Walnut Creek
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781611321838; 9781611321845; 9781611321852; 9781611326338
Subjects: Forensic anthropology; Ethnoarchaeology; Human remains (Archaeology); Forensic archaeology; Antiquities; Demographic archaeology; Cemeteries; Ethnic groups; History
Description: "This volume presents a sophisticated set of archival, forensic, and excavation methods to identify both individuals and group affiliations - cultural, religious, and organizational - in a multiethnic historical cemetery. Based on an extensive excavation project of more than 1,000 nineteenth-century burials in downtown Tucson, Arizona [the Alameda-Stone Cemetery; the Joint Courts Complex Archaeological Project], the team of historians, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, and community researchers created an effective methodology for use at other historical-period sites. Comparisons made with other excavated cemeteries strengthens the power of this toolkit for historical archaeologists and others. The volume also sensitizes archaeologists to the concerns of community and cultural groups to mortuary excavation and outlines procedures for proper consultation with the descendants of the cemetery’s inhabitants"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.