Cemetery headstones contain historical and genealogical information that is largely untapped and is difficult to access. We introduce a solution through computer vision and OCR that allows the user to take a photo of a headstone with a GPS smart phone, review and correct, if necessary, the regions recognized as text, and have the text, images, and GPS location from the headstone extracted, reco...

The aim of this contribution is to examine the effect of an indiscriminate epidemic on a population to assess whether or not a catastrophic event can be identified from examination of paleodemographic data. Using paleodemographic techniques, the death assemblage from the Royal Mint site, London, a Black Death cemetery dated 1349 AD, is compared with that from St. Helen-on-the-Walls, York, which...