Mapping: Geophysics

Bigman, D. 2012

‘The use of electromagnetic induction in locating graves and mapping cemeteries: an example from native North America’, Archaeological Prospection, 19:1, 31-39.

Bigman, D. 2014

‘Mapping social relationships: geophysical survey of a nineteenth-century American slave cemetery’, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 6, 17-30.

Brooks, C. 2011

‘Enclosing their immortal souls: a survey of two African American cemeteries in Georgetown, South Carolina’, Southeastern Archaeology, 30:1, 176-186.

Conyers, L. 2006

‘Ground-penetrating radar technique to discover and map historical graves’, Historical Archaeology, 40:3, 64-73.

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.

Evans, R., Morrow, R. & Nash, J. 2014

‘The use of ground penetrating radar to investigate a churchyard burial plot’, Fifteenth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, 45-49.

Lowry, S. 2023

‘An ethical framework for geophysical survey in historic Black cemeteries’, Archaeological Prespection, 31, 419-428.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract