​​​​​​​Thursday, April 11, 2024 • 6:00 PM EST ​

University of Louisville

Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY, 40203

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​​​Violence and Mortuary Landscapes: An Archaeological and Ethnographic Study of Eastern Cemetery (Louisville, KY) 

Drs. Angela Storey, Ashley Smallwood, Katy Marklein, and Tom Jennings (University of Louisville)​

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How are histories of violence reproduced and reinscribed within the landscape of urban cemeteries? How can approaches from across anthropology’s varied sub-disciplines – archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology – help us understand the past, present, and future of cemeteries? In this research we examine the current abandonment and past over-burying of Eastern Cemetery, located in central Louisville. We argue for the need to see the past and present as deeply entwined and examine how what we know about the past is crafted through the lens of the present. In this talk, we explore preliminary findings from two years of surface and subsurface surveying and ethnographic data collection.   

​​Drs. Storey, Smallwood, Marklein, and Jennings are faculty members in the University of Louisville's Department of Anthropology. 

“Violence and Mortuary Landscapes” is presented by the Kentucky Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, with support from the University of Louisville Departments of Anthropology and History.

Archaeology Lectures, Spring 2024

With the support of our academic partners at the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky, we look forward to presenting a series of talks in which internationally-recognized scholars discuss their latest research on a variety of archaeological topics. 

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