DAVID A. POIRIER is Staff Archaeologist with the Connecticut Historical Commission, where he is also Environmental Review Coordinator for the State Historic Preservation Office.NICHOLAS F. BELLANTONI serves as the Connecticut State Archaeologist with the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History at the University of Connecticut.

• Preface by Nicholas F. Bellantoni and David A. PoirierIntroductionNew Perspectives on the Past by Douglas OwsleyDisenfranchised PeoplesThe First African Baptist Church Cemeteries: African-American Mortality and Trauma in Antebellum Philadelphia by Thomas A.J. Crist et al.Babies in the Well: Insight into Deviant Behavior in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia by Sharon Ann BurnstonFolly Island: An African American Union Troop Cemetery in South Carolina by Ted A. Rathbun and Steven D. SmithRecovering Lost Minds: Evidence of Insanity in a Late 19th Century Almshouse Skeletal Sample by Shawn M. PhillipsThe Invisible People: The Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace by Sharon Ann BurnstonCedar Grove: African American History in Rural Arkansas by Amy Maish, Jerome C. Rose and Murray K. MarksTrauma and DesecrationBuried Prisoners in 18th Century Quebec by Gisèle Piédalue and Jerome S. CybulskiRescue, Research and Reburial: Walton Family Cemetery, Griswold, Connecticut by Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Paul S. Sledzik and David A. PoirierLittle Bighorn: Identification of Human Remains from the Custer National Cemetery by Douglas Scott and P. WilleyForensic Archaeology at the Chauncey Family Crypt, Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut by Nicholas F. Bellantoni and David G. CookeDisaster and Relief Efforts at the Hardin Cemetery by Paul S. Sledzik and David R. HuntResource GuideLocating and Excavating Historic Burials by Douglas W. Owsley, Brooks B. Ellwood and Malcolm L. RichardsonDocumentary and Comparative Scholarly Research: Context in Cemetery Archaeology by Edward L. BellIn Partnership: Descendants, Friends-of-the-Dead, and Archaeologists by David A. Poirier and Nicholas BellantoniIndex