Innovation and Implementation

Richard Veit is a Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University.  His research interests include gravestones and burial grounds, early American material culture, vernacular architecture, and conflict archaeology.

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Introduction

Harold Mytum and Richard Veit



Part I: Exploring Surface, Subsurface and Documentary Evidence



Chapter 1. Applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Record and Interpret Mortuary Monuments

Harold Mytum



Chapter 2. Reevaluating Empty Sections Within Historic Cemeteries: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Mark Nonestied



Chapter 3. Is Anyone Out There? Survey and Research Techniques for CRM Projects when Burial Grounds/Cemeteries Border Construction Projects

Mickey Dobbin and Bob Dean



Chapter 4. Who Lies Where? A Land and Air-based Survey Methodology for Documenting Historic Cemeteries

Richard W. Hunter, James S. Lee III, Alexis Alemy and Evan Mydlowski



Part II: Field Recording of Monuments and Burial Ground Management



Chapter 5. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Evaluating Earlier Cemetery Monument Records through Modern Recording

Anne G. Giesecke and Dan Steffen



Chapter 6. An International Mortuary Monument Recording System - From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies

Harold Mytum



Chapter 7. “As Old as Pompeii or Herculaneum”: Kolkata, India’s South Park Street Cemetery, An Example of Rapid Recording

Richard Veit   



Chapter 8. Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act

Melissa A Timo



Chapter 9. Mourning and Remembering Deceased Companion Species: Mortuary Monuments and Graves for Horses in Finland

Tiina Äikäs, Janne Ikäheimo, Tuija Kirkinen, Karin Hemmann, and Päivi Laine



Chapter 10. Preserving the Rainbow Bridge: Recording Pet Cemeteries

Eric Tourigny



Part III: Archiving and Dissemination



Chapter 11. Discovering England's Burial Spaces (DEBS): Using Digital Tools in Graveyard Recording and Archiving

Julian D Richards, Toby Pillatt, Debbie Maxwell, Gareth Beale and Nicole Smith



Chapter 12. The Cemetery Surveyor Application: Non-paper data Collection Methods in Luxembourg Burial Grounds

Christoph K. Streb, Cyrille Médard de Chardon, and Thomas Kolnberger



Chapter 13. Burial Grounds on the Web: Reviewing the Role of Digital Data beyond Genealogy, and how Historical Archaeology can play its part

Anna Fairley Nielsson



Chapter 14. Burial Ground Recording and Analysis: Where Next?

Harold Mytum and Richard Veit



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