Digital technology can be a useful tool for archaeologists to digitally preserve the current state of mortuary landscapes and can also be a useful tool for public engagement to raise awareness about these marginalized sites, their histories, and the environmental dangers they face.This paper focuses on the case study of Mount Carmel Cemetery, a historic Black cemetery located in Pasco County, Florida. Through the combination of digital tools and documentary sources, ten gravestones in various conditions were identified and digitized as well as the remains of a wooden structure and memorial plaque resulting in the production of digital images, 3D models, and updated site maps of the cemetery, and historical vignettes of individuals. I argue that only by combining and contextualizing digital images with historical contexts and the stories of individuals connected with the cemetery can the digital data be made truly productive towards the work of historical recovery.

The production of cast iron grave markers commences in the 17th century in England, but becomes much more common in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. This paper reveals some of the contents of a newly-accessed archive of cast iron grave marker records compiled by Tony and Mary Yoward in the 1980s and 1990s, now preserved at the Ironbridge Gorge archives. The paper concentrates on contrasting the large-scale production and distribution of some foundries such as Etna (Glasgow) and Haden (Warminster) with more local production. Also the range of types is briefly outlined, revealing the ways in which cast iron could both mimic memorial forms in stone but also provide other shapes well suited to cast iron as a material. This paper combines mortuary archaeology with industrial archaeology and reveals a category of monument that would have been a common choice but which has largely disappeared.

This study examines the distinct characteristics of children's tombs and graves in Portuguese cemeteries from the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on differences in architecture, decoration, and epitaphs. The research highlights how children's graves often feature unique architectural elements such as smaller scales and angelic or playful motifs. Decorative aspects frequently include symbols of innocence and purity. Epitaphs on children's graves tend to express deep sorrow and loss while celebrating the innocence and brevity of the young lives commemorated. And it is even possible to identify personal objects, such as puppets and other toys, that would allow the loved one not to be that lonely in the after life. By analyzing these elements, the study aims to uncover the cultural and societal attitudes towards childhood and mortality during this period in Portugal, providing a nuanced understanding of how communities memorialized their youngest members.

Landscapes are wrought into existence by the values humans apply to them. Reciprocally, the spaces we occupy, travel to, and through craft social identities. This paper investigates the relationship between temporalities and landscapes and the implications for people interacting with differing spaces, specifically in early 20th-century New Jersey. To accomplish this, we explore the impact of landscapes occupying different temporalities. What identities are validated by assigning a temporality manufactured by modernity and industrial capitalism to an environment, and what is implied by the absence of these qualities? The domestication of time required by industrial capitalism reordered the physical and cognitive sense of space. Areas subjected to this new timesense are presented as modern and productive. Inversely, less developed and rural environments were interpreted as anachronistic, unproductive, and out-of-time with the modern world. We argue that the dialectic produced contributed to and reinforced modern and white identities.