1. Describe in detail the function and procedure of the method known as seriation.

A.   Who first developed this procedure? 

B.   For what materials was this method first applied? 

C.   What would a long slender battleship shaped graph depict? D. What would a short squat battleship graph depict? 

2.   Describe three basic designs that were used by New England stone carvers between 1690-1820. 

3. According to James Deetz's Remember Me As You Pass By, the period of decline in Deathheads coincides with the decline of  what? 

4. Explain in cultural/religious terms the evolution of gravestone inscriptions. 

5.  Explain in cultural/religious terms the "Great Awakening". 

      A. What effect did the "Great Awakening " have on stone carving? 

6. Why is the urn and willow not a graphic representation of either the mortal component or the immortal component of the individual, but rather a symbol of commemoration? 

7. Compare the sequence of the three basic styles-New England versus England.

8. How is the sequence of these three designs indicative of religious change in Anglo-America? 

9. Compare the three basic stone carving styles in Massachusetts. Compare changes in ideology in urban Boston, the adjacent countryside, and the deep countryside. 

10. Which period of time is characterized by the greatest degree of regional variation in gravestone design? Why? 

11. When did New Englanders begin the practice of burial in small family plots? 

12. What is the position of David D. Hall's interpretation of the functional relation of colonial gravestones to the larger cultural/religious system? 

13. How does this interpretation differ from Deetz, Lugwig, and Benes? 

14. To which interpretation do you agree? Why? Be specific.

15. Expand James A. Slater's Summary of Uses of Methodology into a more explanatory narrative. 

16. Include detailed seriation charts using spreadsheets for Conant St., Abbot St., North Andover, and Harvard Square cemeteries field trips. 

17. UPDATE NANCY BUCKEYE'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GRAVESTONE STUDIES FROM 1977-PRESENT- CONCENTRATE ON NEW ENGLAND (1600's- 1820) 

1. Graveyards 
2. The art of the carver 
3. Stone reproduction and restoration 
4. Grave markers and technology 
5. Symbols 
6. Seriation Studies 
7. Stone carvers 

18. Find a topic within the area of gravestone studies and add to the existing body of knowledge.

DUE DATE:  November 12th, 2001

If you happen to be absent on this day you have three choices: 
1. Bring it to school on that date via parent, friend, classmate, etc. 
2. Mail it with an Nov. 12th postmark. 
3. Submit this project before November 12th. 
4. ******INCOMPLETE PROJECTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED******* 

All footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographic listings must be written in the Chicago Manual of Style Format/Kate Turabian Style. See Handout for introduction. 

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