The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Commemoration: Changing fashions
Collier, C. 2003
‘Tradition, modernity and postmodernity in symbolism of death’, The Sociological Quarterly, 44:4, 727-49.
Deetz, J. 1977
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life, New York: Anchor Books.
Dethlefsen, E. 1981
‘The cemetery and culture change: archaeological focus and ethnographic perspective’, in R. Gould and M. Schiffer (eds) Modern Material Culture: The Archaeology of Us, New York, NY: Academic Press, 137-159.
Dethlefson, E. & Deetz, J. 1966
‘Death’s heads, cherubs and willow trees: experimental archaeology in colonial cemeteries’, American Antiquities, 31: 502-10.
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.
Martin-Apostolatos, G. 2022
‘The high cost of living: death and social identity of Missouri’s historic Columbia Cemetery’, Historical Archaeology, 56: 543-562.
Snell, K. Jones, R. 2018
‘Churchyard memorials, “dispensing with God gradually”: rustication, decline of the gothic and emergence of art deco in the British Isles’, Rural History, 29:1, 45-80.
Vanderstaeten, R. 2014
‘Burying and remembering the dead’, Memory Studies, 7:4, 457-471.
Vanderstaeten, R. 2009
‘Modes of individualisation at cemeteries’, Sociological Research Online, 14:4, 37-49.
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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.
