Recovering a Black Cemetery: Automated Mapping of Hidden Gravesites Using an sUAV and GIS in East End Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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...

Origins of an Unmarked Georgia Cemetery Using Ancient DNA Analysis.

Determining the origins of those buried within undocumented cemeteries is of incredible importance to historical archaeologists and, in many cases, the nearby communities. In the case of Avondale Burial Place, a cemetery in Bibb County, Georgia, in use from 1820 to 1950, all written documentation of those interred within it has been lost. Osteological and archaeological evidence alone could not...

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...

Le Morne Cemetery: Archaeological Investigations

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...