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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Gravestone"”.
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A method for correlation of gravestone weathering and air quality (SO2), West Midlands, UK
… sediments cores, lake acidification studies and gravestone weathering have all been used to reconstruct the history of air quality. A 120-year record of acid deposition reconstructed from lead-lettered marble gravestone weathering combined with SO2 measurements from the air monitoring network …
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Using Archaeological Methods in Cemetery Surveys with Emphasis on the Application of Lidar
… through recording information from the gravestones remains an important task that needs to be undertaken. Preservation, in this context, refers to having a comprehensive record of the gravestone data and maps of the gravestone locations to aid those who seek to garner information from …
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The forensic, the missing and the memorial: how missing persons of apartheid state sanctioned violence are memorialised through the mediation of the work of the forensic
… cabinets as a coffin and the text panel as a gravestone, that this connection can be made clear. The ‘museum-cemetery’ confines but also potentially remakes the afterlives of the artefacts. In a way this dynamic political and historical making and unmaking of the artefacts, also works to both …
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Gravegoods: A Primer for Preservation
<p>Deep East Texas is home to many historic cemeteries. The preservation of these cemeteries includes the care of gravemarkers and the management of cemetery grounds. Unfortunately, these practices often neglect gravegoods. The Caddo people have some of the earliest gravegood usage in Deep East …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
The Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity was as much a revolution in literacy as it was in religion. I argue that within this new textual culture, the Anglo-Saxons exploited writing’s aura of permanence to counter the social, spiritual, and physical oblivion of death. By using writing both to …