Black culture has shaped the American landscape in unique but often unrecognized ways. Black burial sites and cemeteries honor ancestors and are a site of reverence (LaRoche & Blakey, 1997). However, they are routinely neglected, reflecting America’s history of segregation. …
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Several twentieth century archaeological expeditions to Lower Nubia recovered the skeletal and cultural remains of C-Group populations mainly from cemetery sites between Shellal and the Second Cataract. Along with the remains of the more or less contemporary Pangrave and Kerma p…
A study of the decorated elite mastabas and rock-cut tomb in the Eastern and GIS cemeteries at Giza reveals that numerous factors influenced the development of art during the Fourth Dynasty. These two cemeteries are located adjacent to King Khufu's pyramid but differ in the stat…
Montgomery County, Maryland in the 19th century comprised a diversity of socioeconomic and racial communities. Some aspects of the community can be found in historical documents, information relating to the laboring class and enslaved peoples has been lost or omitted from the hi…
In this thesis work, Sand and Dust is an installation containing multiple types of work, including short videos, short film, sound, photograph, and documentary. Sand and Dust title is inspired by the title of the song written by Trinh Cong Son. This song abstracts the concepts o…
Based upon the history of Catholic cemeteries and their governance, this paper draws out the historic goals and themes of Catholic cemeteries. In that context, it discusses how particular law promulgated under canon 1243 of the Code of Canon Las can be most helpful for ensuring …
The goal of this work is to provide researchers, preservationists, and historians with an in-depth look of the treatment of graves and gravesites over time by Bethel United Methodist Church and Old Bethel United Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. This data can hopef…
This paper addresses the history and current state of five cemeteries that were created for African Americans in the St. Louis Missouri area. These cemeteries were created at various times pre-and post-Civil War. This paper uses research and images to show the past and present o…
The difficulties of the Bronze Age burial record on Cyprus have been well documented. Until recent years, limitations to the body of demographic data, obtained from the mortuary arena, have prevented a substantial investigation into the relationship between biological aspects of…
The degradation, abandonment, and “forgetting” of African American cemeteries have become chronic issues throughout the Southern United States. At their base, these spaces are examples of manipulated landscapes and represent a long history of minimization as the result of an ima…