Coffin hardware analysis and chronology of the Head Cemetery, Robertson County, Texas

dc.contributor.advisorFranklin, Maria
dc.creatorBasse, Karissa Anneen
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-25T15:33:22Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:38:49Z
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:38:49Z
dc.date.issued2013-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2013en
dc.date.updated2013-11-25T15:33:22Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractAtkins performed an archaeological relocation of a nineteenth century cemetery on behalf of Luminant Mining Company, within the Kosse Mine in Robertson County, Texas between the years of 2011 and 2012. The Head Cemetery offers unique opportunities to examine views of death and burial in rural, central Texas during the period of the early statehood until around 1900. The Head family and other members of the settlement were part of a pioneer community exhibiting clear expressions of family and community affiliations through spatiality and the material culture of burials. An analysis of coffin hardware and burial practices provides suggestions for dating and identifying unknown interments and exploring changing sentiments towards death by Anglo American settlers within the broader sociohistorical context of the nineteenth century.en
dc.description.departmentAnthropologyen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/22430en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.subjectArchaeologyen
dc.subjectTexasen
dc.subjectCemeteriesen
dc.subjectMortuary practicesen
dc.subjectFunerary ritualsen
dc.subjectHistorical archaeologyen
dc.subjectCoffin hardwareen
dc.titleCoffin hardware analysis and chronology of the Head Cemetery, Robertson County, Texasen

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