Cemetery of Words

Le Morne Cemetery: Archaeological Investigations

De®ning the place of burial: what makes a cemetery a cemetery?

A great deal of material has been written about cemeteries based on the assumption that they constitute a speci®c type of burial place, but few writers have given close attention to the task of describing the features that may be particular to cemeteries. This paper regards cemeteries as speci®cally demarcated sites of burial, with an ordered internal layout that is conducive both to families c...

Mineral Contamination from Cemetery Soils: Case Study of Zandfontein Cemetery, South Africa

The burial of coffins may pose an environmental and health hazard since the metals that are used in coffin-making may corrode or degrade into harmful toxins. These may leach into the surrounding soils and groundwater. Very little research has been conducted world-wide on the mineral contamination potential of cemeteries, and virtually none in South Africa. The aim of the study is to determine w...

The Cemetery and the Creation of Place

Throughout most recorded history, human societies have used various types of cemeteries for burial purposes; this theme points to humanity’s need to construct a meaning behind death and reflect life into the places where the dead are interred. Whether the bodies of the deceased are placed in the ground, within elaborate tombs, or simply in the presence of ancient or contemporary monuments, thei...

Clustering Using Cemetery Organization Behavior of Ants

Clustering is the unsupervised classification of patterns (data items, observations or feature vectors) into groups (clusters). Clustering problem has been addressed by the researchers of many disciplines in different contexts. Due to the escalating amount of data available online, the World Wide Web has become one of the most precious resource for information retrievals and knowledge discoveri...