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Category Archives: Mass Graves

Fight to the Death! Violence and Trauma in 16th-17th c. Romania

August 7, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

Right now I’m working on the historical background to my dissertation, which means reading a lot of historical texts and history books on early medieval England. As an archaeologist, I’ve […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mass Graves

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

Excavating a More Recent Past: WWI Mass Grave

October 18, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 2 Comments

When excavating historic sites, we gain access to a level of highly informative data- text. Excavating prehistory means that we only have the archaeological remains to tell us who these […]

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Mass Graves, Mortuary Sites

Art, Text and Mayan Dismemberment

September 25, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 6 Comments

In the 19th and early 20th century, archaeologists had a bad habit of using texts and art as their primary source of evidence, and using the archaeological material as a […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mass Graves

Slaves as grave gifts for the Vikings

September 17, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 17 Comments

Grave goods and burial gifts consist of any item given to the dead at burial or taken by the deceased into their grave. It may be an offering to the […]

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Bioarchaeology, Funeral Practices, Mass Graves

Plague of Justinian: The Older Brother of the Black Death

May 7, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 9 Comments

The Black Death, or Bubonic Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics to sweep through Europe. In only four years, this single disease wiped out half the population and […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mass Graves, Methods, Pathology

Identifying Mass Graves: Modern and Historic

April 17, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 13 Comments

A mass grave is a burial that includes multiple individuals within one grave. The term is often used for burials with three or more individuals, since burials less than that […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mass Graves

London’s Newest Plague Pit

March 19, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 7 Comments

claimtoken-5149b056b7c8b The Crossrail project is aimed at creating a 73 mile railway in southeast London. Concerns raised about the new fast and efficient railway was that it could destroy archaeological […]

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Bioarchaeology, Cemeteries, Mass Graves

Adult Version of Lord of the Flies

December 12, 2012by Kate Meyers Emery 7 Comments

On October 29, 1628, The Batavia left port from Amsterdam heading toward modern day Jakarta. The 316 people on board included men, women, and children of various classes, nationalities, and […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mass Graves

The Army from the Bog

August 28, 2012by Kate Meyers Emery 8 Comments

Bogs in general have been a more spectacular field of study in archaeology. Throughout Ireland, Scotland, and Denmark, these anaerobic environments have preserved people, sites and artifacts for thousands of […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mass Graves, Mortuary Archaeology

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