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Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge. Pedro Paulo A. Funari. Martin Hall. and Sian Jones. eds. New York: Routledge, 1999. 350 pp.

Innovation and Implementation -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - Exploring Surface, Subsurface, and Documentary Evidence -- Chapter 1 - Applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Record and Interpret Mortuary Monuments -- Chapter 2 - Uncovering History at Washington Monumental Cemetery: Ground-Penetrating Radar and Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic -- Chapter 4 - Who Lies Where? A Land and Air-Based Survey Methodology for Documenting Historic Cemeteries -- Part II - Field Recording of Monuments and Burial Ground Management -- Chapter 5 - Revisiting Historic Bural Grounds -- Chapter 6 - An International Mortuary Monument Recording System: From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies -- Chapter 7 - "As Old as Pompeii or Herculaneum": Kolkata, India's South Park Street Cemetery, an Example of Rapid Recording -- Chapter 8 - Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the African American Cemetery Project -- Chapter 9 - Mourning and Remembering: Mortuary Monuments and Graves for Horses in Finland -- Chapter 10 - Preserving the Rainbow Bridge: A Guide to Recording Pet Cemeteries -- Part III - Archiving and Dissemination -- Chapter 11 - Discovering England's Burial Spaces: Digital Archives and Their Potential for Burial Space Research -- Chapter 12 - The Cemetery Surveyor Application: Non-Paper Data-Collection Methods in Luxembourg Burial Grounds -- Chapter 13 - A Website for St. James' Cemetery, Liverpool: Demonstrating the Value of Material Culture in the Dissemination of Cemetery Data Online -- Chapter 14 - Burial Ground Recording and Analysis: Where Next? -- Index.

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey's historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived. The evidence ranges from somber seventeenth-century decorations such as hourglasses and skulls that denoted the brevity of colonial life, to modern times where memorials, such as a life-size granite Mercedes Benz, reflect the materialism of the new millennium. Also considered are contemporary novelties suc