Bioarchaeological Analysis of a Historic North Carolina Family Cemetery

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dc.contributor.advisorPerry, Megan A
dc.contributor.authorLong, Madison
dc.contributor.departmentAnthropology
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-21T18:53:42Z
dc.date.available2019-08-21T18:53:42Z
dc.date.created2019-08
dc.date.issued2019-07-02
dc.date.submittedAugust 2019
dc.date.updated2019-08-19T17:40:53Z
dc.degree.departmentAnthropology
dc.degree.disciplineMA-Anthropology
dc.degree.grantorEast Carolina University
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.degree.nameM.A.
dc.description.abstractThe Gause Cemetery at Seaside, located in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, purportedly contains members of a wealthy and influential planter family, the Gause's, who died during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 2017, a Gause descendant requested excavation of the cemetery by East Carolina University as part of an extensive genealogical project that will culminate in the reburial of the human skeletal remains. During the first season of excavation, three adult individuals were recovered from the cemetery, and excavation in 2018 uncovered five additional graves containing seven individuals. Six out of the seven individuals recovered in 2018 are subadults, one 6-8 years of age, one 7-8 years of age, another 1.5 years old, and three term infants. All individuals at the site display skeletal evidence of childhood non-specific stress indicators, such as linear enamel hypoplasias in the adults and children, and/or periostitis or porotic hyperostosis in the children. This evidence, along with the simultaneous burial of two of the newborns and the 6-8 year old child in the same grave possibly due to a disease epidemic based on historical evidence, suggests that even "elite" 18th and 19th century landowning families experienced childhood frailty in North Carolina.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10342/7449
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEast Carolina University
dc.subjectBioarchaeology
dc.subjecthistoric archaeology
dc.subject.lcshGoss family
dc.subject.lcshCemeteries--Recording--North Carolina--Sunset Beach
dc.subject.lcshExcavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina--Sunset Beach
dc.subject.lcshForensic archaeology--North Carolina--Sunset Beach
dc.titleBioarchaeological Analysis of a Historic North Carolina Family Cemetery
dc.typeMaster's Thesis
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