Excavations that took place within the 19thand 20th-century cemetery of Assistens Kirkegård in Copenhagen created a new and more tangible, but also more uncomfortable aspect to the study of modern death. Almost 1000 coffins and urns, dating between the 1800s-1990s, were excavated, recorded and then reburied in new graves in the cemetery. Death in modern cemeteries is normally successfully conce...

The pattern of degenerative joint disease (DJD) of the intervertebral and apophyseal joints of the vertebral column of 81 skeletons from the thirteenth to fourteenth century medieval priory cemetery of St. Andrew, Fishergate, York, was recorded in relation to their location of interment: eastern cemetery, southern cemetery, and intramurally (within the priory buildings). Archaeological context ...

It was somewhere around here, I think.Where they buried that baby,yeah, the one told you about.No, not by pioneer obelisksa wife for each sidefresh flower at its feet.No, veterans’ memorial—What even Black Hawk War?Oh that.No, new grandparent graveten kidsclean-cut and temple-topped.Not mine but close.No, flat slabs of a family plot.Once upon timeI jumped across them like stepping-stonesand hel...

We present a dynamic programming-based solution to the problem of maximizing the probability of attaining a target set before hitting a cemetery set for a discrete-time Markov control process. Under mild hypotheses we establish that there exists a deterministic stationary policy that achieves the maximum value of this probability. We demonstrate how the maximization of this probability can be c...

The existence of a Byzantine church north of Tell Hesbh was confirmed by a sounding done in 1976 as part of the Andrews University Expedition. As a follow-up to that, Baptist Bible College of Pennsylvania sponsored a four-week expedition' to the site for the purpose of expanding the excavation of the church. The probe of 1976 had established the existence of three strata at the site: an Ayyilbi...

In my article on Dr. Hezekiah Beardsley it was stated that we were unable to locate the tombstone which was removed from the green, where Dr. Beardsley and his wife were buried, to the Grove Street Cemetery. Further search has revealed his stone upon which also appears an inscription to his wife. It is to be found along the west wall of the cemetery near the beginning of the stones that were ra...

The protestant cemetery of Saint-Maurice as well as what remains of the Charenton Temple (1607-1686) are among the most recently excavated sites of the Val de Marne. The salvage excavation directed by J. Y. Dufour of Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (INRAP) in 2005, where a medical facility was built, was instrumental in flagging not only an important 17 th century pro...