1st Edition
Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries
Edited By Michael P Heilen
Copyright 2012
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
311 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 team of historians, archaeologists, biological anthropologists,... Read more
Foreword by Roger AnyonAcknowledgments1. The Alameda-Stone Cemetery in the Context of Tucson HistoryMichael Heilen and Marlesa A. Gray2. Historic and Archaeological Overview of the CemeteryMichael Heilen, with contributions by Kristin J. Sewell3. Cultural Affinity, Identity, and Relatedness: Distinguishing Individuals and Cultural GroupsLynne Goldstein, Joseph T. Hefner, Kristin J. Sewell, and Michael Heilen4. Life, Death, and Dying in Southeastern Arizona, 1860-1880: Historical Accounts and Bioarchaeological EvidenceMichael Heilen, Joseph T. Hefner, and Mitchell A. Keur5. Deathways and Tucson's Living Population 1860-1880Kristin J. Sewell, Michael Heilen, and Lynne Goldstein6. Mortuary SynthesisLynne Goldstein, Kristin J. Sewell, Michael Heilen, and Joseph T. Hefner7. The Alameda-Stone Cemetery and Mortuary ArchaeologyLynne Goldstein8. Cemeteries, Consultation, Repatriation, Reburial, and Sacred Spaces TodayLynne Goldstein and Roger AnyonNotesReferencesIndexAbout the Authors
Biography
Michael P Heilen
