Lynn Rainville
Biographic Data
| ID | 138091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Rainville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Rainville |
| SIGNATURE | RAINVILLE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sweet Briar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dying Impoverished: The Funerary Rites, Gravestones, and Cemeteries of the Poor
Because most deaths in America are commemorated with physical memorials, gravestone and graveyard studies reveal information about a wide swath of social and economic classes, from the wealthiest to the poorest. This article reviews mortuary remains for the latter: paupers. Using sites in Virginia as case studies, I examine the material remnants of thousands of indigent burials to add a regional perspective to a national pattern of attitudes towa…
A National African American Cemetery Database Starts in Your Backyard
In the United States, human remains are protected at the local, state, and federal levels. And yet, due to systemically racist residential, economic, and mortuary segregation, African American burials have not always received equal care and attention. One solution is a national database that encourages the rediscovery and protection of Black graveyards. Working in partnership with descendants, community kin, and interested citizens, public histor…
Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries by Ryan K. Smith (review)
Reviewed by: Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries by Ryan K. Smith Lynn Rainville (bio) Ryan K. Smith Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 328 pages, 52 black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 9781421439273, $34.95 HB Not everyone's daily perambulations include a walk by or through a cemetery, but after reading Ryan K. Smith's book you migh…
Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe 2007-2008
Home at Last: Mortuary Commemoration in Virginian Slave Cemeteries
Protecting Our Shared Heritage in African-American Cemeteries
America's historical cemeteries are cultural treasures, yet they face a variety of threats, ranging from over-eager real estate developers to uninformed property owners, petty vandalism, and grave robbing. This article discusses challenges the author faced while documenting and preserving African-American cemeteries in her home state of Virginia, and offers potential solutions to the problems archaeologists throughout the country will face when u…
Report on Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2006 Season
Locating the “People Without History” in Histories of the Ancient Near East
Three books discussed here illustrate multidisciplinary approaches to studying ancient civilizations and a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives. They suggest that in addition to the traditional focus on elites and urban origins, we should analyze nonelites and smaller scale communities. I concur that focusing on elites gives an incomplete and inaccurate picture of life and culture in the ancient Near East. Instead, these books she…
The Secret Cemetery
The Secret Cemetery. Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, and Georgina Neophytou. New York: Berg, 2005. 298 pp
Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2003-2004
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches
Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe - 2002
Research at Tıtrıs Höyük in Southeastern Turkey
Microdebris analysis in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamian households
I am interested in the daily activities of the non-Blites to understand ancient Mesopotamian society.Analysing the activities performed within thehouses of the non-6lites is the first step in definingthe social and economic differentiation amonghouseholds and, in turn, a better understanding ofthe role of these households within ancient communities.1 analyse activity areas using a relativelynew method - micro-debris analysis - which analysessmall…
Protecting Our Shared Heritage in African-American Cemeteries
America's historical cemeteries are cultural treasures, yet they face a variety of threats, ranging from over-eager real estate developers to uninformed property owners, petty vandalism, and grave robbing. This article discusses challenges the author faced while documenting and preserving African-American cemeteries in her home state of Virginia, and offers potential solutions to the problems archaeologists throughout the country will face when u…
Microdebris analysis in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamian households
I am interested in the daily activities of the non-Blites to understand ancient Mesopotamian society.Analysing the activities performed within thehouses of the non-6lites is the first step in definingthe social and economic differentiation amonghouseholds and, in turn, a better understanding ofthe role of these households within ancient communities.1 analyse activity areas using a relativelynew method - micro-debris analysis - which analysessmall…
The Secret Cemetery
The Secret Cemetery. Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, and Georgina Neophytou. New York: Berg, 2005. 298 pp
Microdebris analysis in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamian households
I am interested in the daily activities of the non-Blites to understand ancient Mesopotamian society.Analysing the activities performed within thehouses of the non-6lites is the first step in definingthe social and economic differentiation amonghouseholds and, in turn, a better understanding ofthe role of these households within ancient communities.1 analyse activity areas using a relativelynew method - micro-debris analysis - which analysessmall…
Research at Tıtrıs Höyük in Southeastern Turkey
Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe - 2002
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches
Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2003-2004
Locating the “People Without History” in Histories of the Ancient Near East
Three books discussed here illustrate multidisciplinary approaches to studying ancient civilizations and a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives. They suggest that in addition to the traditional focus on elites and urban origins, we should analyze nonelites and smaller scale communities. I concur that focusing on elites gives an incomplete and inaccurate picture of life and culture in the ancient Near East. Instead, these books she…
The Secret Cemetery
The Secret Cemetery. Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, and Georgina Neophytou. New York: Berg, 2005. 298 pp
Report on Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2006 Season
Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe 2007-2008
Home at Last: Mortuary Commemoration in Virginian Slave Cemeteries
Protecting Our Shared Heritage in African-American Cemeteries
America's historical cemeteries are cultural treasures, yet they face a variety of threats, ranging from over-eager real estate developers to uninformed property owners, petty vandalism, and grave robbing. This article discusses challenges the author faced while documenting and preserving African-American cemeteries in her home state of Virginia, and offers potential solutions to the problems archaeologists throughout the country will face when u…
Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries by Ryan K. Smith (review)
Reviewed by: Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries by Ryan K. Smith Lynn Rainville (bio) Ryan K. Smith Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 328 pages, 52 black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 9781421439273, $34.95 HB Not everyone's daily perambulations include a walk by or through a cemetery, but after reading Ryan K. Smith's book you migh…
A National African American Cemetery Database Starts in Your Backyard
In the United States, human remains are protected at the local, state, and federal levels. And yet, due to systemically racist residential, economic, and mortuary segregation, African American burials have not always received equal care and attention. One solution is a national database that encourages the rediscovery and protection of Black graveyards. Working in partnership with descendants, community kin, and interested citizens, public histor…
Dying Impoverished: The Funerary Rites, Gravestones, and Cemeteries of the Poor
Because most deaths in America are commemorated with physical memorials, gravestone and graveyard studies reveal information about a wide swath of social and economic classes, from the wealthiest to the poorest. This article reviews mortuary remains for the latter: paupers. Using sites in Virginia as case studies, I examine the material remnants of thousands of indigent burials to add a regional perspective to a national pattern of attitudes towa…
Archaeology (11 works) · History (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Ancient Near East History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (3 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (3 works)