Cemetery

lies near her feet. The head was place near the feet because was accused of witchcraft during that time period. The stone with her resembles that in a low-status burial, but is the wrong color for either males or females. After I had examined the cemetery multiple times I had noticed the…

known since she was the wife of the chief. She died February 1, 1839 near Little Rock, Arkansas. Her burial was rediscovered when, “…the broken sandstone grave marker was found under a building in the Mt. Holly Cemetery in Little Rock where graves from an earlier nineteenth-century cemetery had been moved. For preservation, this stone has been given to the Historic Arkansas Museum,” (King, 2005). It is unclear if the original headstone was prepared when she was buried, or if family members…

[2]. A second burial discovery unveiled a man in a casket, decorated with iron tracks creating the initials HW; burial number 332. After further research, no records were found of any African man with the letter initials HW during the time of the cemetery. This was nothing uncommon as documents were rarely produced on the lives of captives. The team also discovered various beads, buttons, and pins all created using some of the same techniques used in Western Africa. Last,…

friends a place to pay their respects. • A columbarium is basically an above ground mausoleum for cremains. They are frequently free standing wall structures that have niches for placement of the urn or other containers. You can usually find them at a cemetery, funeral home, and churches. This is another method that provides a location for family and friends to visit. • Scattering is preferred by about half of the people who choose cremation. There are any number of locations to scatter…

Although the burial or cremation of bodies have been around for thousands of years (Mark n.pag.), there are better alternatives to honor our dead. For example, freeze drying or promession, provides great benefits to our ecosystem and is an inexpensive alternative to burial or cremation. Freeze drying is defined as a form of body disposal in which the bodies are frozen in liquid nitrogen making them brittle and then vibrated for several hours to turn them into a fine powder. Therefore, people…

When I was only ten years old, I told my mother I wanted to be a funeral director and/or embalmer when I got older. Thirteen years later, I am still saying that same phrase, but only this time it is hitting a little closer to home. I have been waiting 4,745 days to finally be able to say that I am only one year away from achieving that long term goal of mine and I could not be more excited. Although I knew exactly what I wanted to do at such young age, I did not apply to mortuary science…

34 Snowing Night Carried The Corpse On Back, Buried Mother In The Mountains People probably all know the story, Liangshan (梁山）heroes, dutiful son Li Kui （李逵）, carried his mother up to Liangshan mountain. Unfortunately, when Li Kui went to get water and food, hungry tigers ate his mother. Li Kui was in most of grief, and killed four tigers in one breath. But in today 's world, who knows a story about in a dark snowing night, son carried the corpse on back, buried mother in the mountains?…

Los dos Plebes, bodies were buried in a cemetery, but in Leña de Pirul, burials were located under houses. I think that this change to having bodies buried under the floor of the house relates to ancestor worship. I think that people wanted to have their ancestors’ spirits as part of their everyday life. There is no further evidence of ancestor worship, but this is the only reason I can think of that people would change from burying their dead in a cemetery to burying them under the…

In the Mystery Cemetery excavation, all attributes and artifacts are greatly interconnected and useful in order to form logical inferences and observations regarding age, sex, and status. Quick assumptions from individual artifacts would be impossible seeing that one object leads to another, which then correlates to my conclusions for every grave site. The most important grave site that allows all of my observations to be plausible is Burial 10. Because of Burial 10, I am able to determine the…

Case Studies Case 1: During my visit to St. John 's Episcopal Cemetery in Valle Crucis, NC, I came across an interesting example of a laser etched image on Charles Dotson 's gravestone. Etched on Charles 's stone was an image of the USS San Diego along with the inscriptions "WWII," "Bronze Star Recipient," and "Brother Our Hero." Initially, I could figure that Charles was a member of the crew of the USS San Diego during his life, and that time was a defining factor of his personal identity.…