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Category Archives: Cemeteries

Restoring Lost Narratives: Early Medieval Muslim Graves in France

March 9, 2016by Kate Meyers Emery 2 Comments

When people ask me why archaeology is important, or why I’ve chosen to study human remains and funerary practices, I often cite the importance of bringing individual stories back into […]

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Bioarchaeology, Cemeteries

Investigating Funerary Rituals in a Multiethnic African Diasporic Cemetery

January 19, 2016by Kate Meyers Emery 2 Comments

The Atlantic slave trade was a massive and horrific undertaking promoted by Europeans between the 16th and 19th centuries to forcibly move people from Africa to America to be sold as laborers. During this […]

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Cemeteries

Landscapes of Death and Mass Graves from the Roman Empire

November 17, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

There is an amazing relationship between human behavior and space. Our landscape and environment shapes what we can do on it, how we move through it, and where we can […]

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Cemeteries

New Morbid Terminology: Ledgerstones, Grave Markers You Can Walk On

November 5, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 1 Comment

An extremely well preserved family burial vault was recently accidentally discovered in the Gloucester Cathedral in the UK. The tomb was found in the north transept of the cathedral, and […]

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Cemeteries

Bones Abroad: Boston

June 25, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 5 Comments

Last week, I attended ComSciCon– a three day conference for graduate students to learn about how to communicate science. We had the opportunity to meet representatives from NPR, YouTube, Alan […]

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Bones Abroad, Cemeteries

Man’s Best Friend: Pet Cemeteries and Animal Burials

June 17, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 1 Comment

Grover Krantz and Clyde in life and in death. From the Smithsonian Magazine Article.On the inside of my left wrist, I have a tattoo of an Irish sixpence. The sixpence […]

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Bioarchaeology, Cemeteries

Evidence of Violence from a Late Black Death Cemetery

May 27, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 4 Comments

When we study history, we tend to focus on the big events. This is especially true for medieval England where history is defined by wars, plagues, famines, and major changes […]

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Bioarchaeology, Cemeteries, Mass Graves

Death and Landscapes: Why Does Location Matter?

May 14, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 2 Comments

This week, I’m attending the Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Values conference at UMass Amherst. I am going to be speaking Thursday at the 8-10 am session, “Universities as Examples of […]

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Cemeteries

Rank and Status Among Neolithic Children

April 24, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 1 Comment

There are some statuses that we are born into, they are innate to us. For example- we cannot control the status of the family that we are born into. If […]

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Cemeteries

More Bone Churches and Deathly Decorations

January 30, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 1 Comment

Following from our discussion on Tuesday, we’re going to be going through the history and context of three more sacred spaces decorated with bones. Following this we will be able […]

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