Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis

 

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Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis:

Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical
Cemeteries

Michael P. Heilen, editor

June 2012, 311 pages

            

"An outstanding example of a cultural resource management project that has
used all the best available methods of excavation and analysis. The authors
offer data and interpretation of inestimable value on the treatment of the
dead and on the bioarchaeology and the grave goods of those included in the
cemetery. " 

~Nan Rothschild, Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College

 

"The Pima County Joint Courts Complex archaeological project is an exemplary
case of cooperation between government and descendant groups who shared
common concern for the respectful treatment and disposition of human remains
found in unmarked graves within the historic Alameda-Stone cemetery in
downtown Tucson, Arizona. This project will be remembered in history as an
important human rights project, one in which a government's action was based
on firmness of purpose to ensure the cultural property rights of living
descendant groups." 

~John Madsen, Associate Curator of Archaeology Emeritus, Arizona State
Museum, and Arizona Repatriation Coordinator

 

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, 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.

 

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