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Stories in Stone: Mortuary Variation at Carpenter's Run Pioneer Cemetery, Blue Ash, Ohio

COUPER, KELLY A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218419403

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2008, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Anthropology.
Cemeteries provide insight into societal responses and attitudes towards disease, death and burial. Mortuary variation allows insight into not only societal views of death, but also a reflection of change during the use-life of the cemetery. Carpenter's Run Pioneer Cemetery, in Blue Ash, Ohio provides a sociocultural history of the area in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By examining mortuary variation among 231 grave-markers using 23 variables, fieldwork was conducted to illuminate whether mortuary variation displayed was a reflection of disease, death and burial on a societal or familial level. Utilizing recovered data, it was concluded that within this rural community, adherence to social norms was extremely pronounced, even during times of stress. The research and hypotheses gleaned from this cemetery can be applied to the region to determine routes of dissemination of thought, from the period of harsh views of death to the romanticized views of the Enlightenment.
Alan Sullivan, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kenneth Tankersley, PhD (Committee Member)
197 p.
Archaeology
Blue Ash; Ohio; historical archaeology; mortuary variation; cemetery iconography

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  • COUPER, K. A. (2008). Stories in Stone: Mortuary Variation at Carpenter's Run Pioneer Cemetery, Blue Ash, Ohio [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218419403

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • COUPER, KELLY. Stories in Stone: Mortuary Variation at Carpenter's Run Pioneer Cemetery, Blue Ash, Ohio. 2008. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218419403.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • COUPER, KELLY. "Stories in Stone: Mortuary Variation at Carpenter's Run Pioneer Cemetery, Blue Ash, Ohio." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218419403

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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