The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Archaeology: Funerary
Cannon, A. 2005
‘Gender, agency and mortuary fashion’ in G.Rakita, J. Buikstra, L. Beck & S. Williams (eds) Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millenium, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 99-120.
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Cannon, A. 1989
‘The historical dimension in mortuary expressions of status and sentiment’, Current Anthropology, 30, 4, 437-58.
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Cannon, A. & Cook, K. 2015
‘Infant death and the archaeology of grief’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 25: 1, 399-416.
Clark, L. 1987
‘Gravestones: reflectors of ethnicity or class?’ in S. Spencer-Wood (ed.) Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology, Plenum Press, New York, 383-395.
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Dethlefson, E. & Deetz, J. 1966
‘Death’s heads, cherubs and willow trees: experimental archaeology in colonial cemeteries’, American Antiquities, 31: 502-10.
Dick, H.C., Pringle, J.K., Wisniewski, K.D. & 6 others 2017
‘Determining geophysical responses from burials in graveyards and cemeteries’, Geophysics, 82: 6, B245-B255.
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Garman, J. 1994
‘Viewing the color line through the material culture of death’, Historical Archaeology, 28: 3, 74-93.
MacDonald, D. 2011
‘Grief and burial in the American Southwest: the role of evolutionary theory in the interpretation of mortuary remains’, American Antiquity, 66: 4, 704-714.
Mackie, N. 1988
‘The social aspects of funerary monuments in colonial Tidewater Virginia’, Material Culture, 20:2/3, 39-55.
Martin-Apostolatos, G. 2022
‘The high cost of living: death and social identity of Missouri’s historic Columbia Cemetery’, Historical Archaeology, 56: 543-562.
Mytum, H. 1989
‘Public health and private sentiment: the development of cemetery architecture and funerary monuments from the eighteenth century onwards’, World Archaeology, 21, 2, 283-97.
Mytum, H. 1993
‘Death and identity: strategies in body disposal and memorial at North Front Cemetery, Gibraltar’, in M. Carver (ed.) In Search of Cult: Archaeological Investigations in Honour of Phillip Rahtz, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 189-192.
Mytum, H. 2003
‘Death and remembrance in the Colonial context’, in S. Lawrence (ed.) Archaeology of the British: Explorations of Identity in Great Britain and its Colonies, London: Routledge, 156-73.
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Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds) 2023
Innovation and Implementation: Critical Reflections and New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis and Dissemination, New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
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Nielsen, K. 1989
‘From society to burial and from burial to society? Some modern analogies’, in C. Jensen & K. Nielsen (eds) Burial and Society: The Chronological and Social Analysis of Archaeological Burial Data, Oxford: Aarhus University Press.
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Streb, C. 2017
‘Modern class society in the making: evidence from Palatinate gravestones of the nineteenth century’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 21: 240-76.
Tarlow, S. 1998
‘Romancing the stones: the graveyard boom of the later 18th century’ in M. Cox, (1998) (ed.) Grave Concerns: Death and Burial in England, 1700-1850, York: Council for British Archaeology, 33-43.
Tarlow, S. 1999
Bereavement and Commemoration: An Archaeology of Mortality, Oxford: Blackwell.
Thornbush, S. & Thornbush, M. 2020
Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards, Singapore: Bentham Books.
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Veit, R. 2009
“Resolved to strike out a new path”: consumerism and iconographic change in New Jersey gravestones’, Historical Archaeology, 43: 1, 115-41.
