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| #e.22094 | Friday 8:30AM to 4:00PM
November 9,
2012 | CM | 6.50 |
Cemetery Resource Protection TrainingFlorida Planning and Zoning AssociationTampa, FL Join the Florida Public Archaeology Network staff to learn about cemetery care and preservation. We will explore cemeteries as historical resources, laws that protect them, conserving headstones and markers, managing cemetery landscapes, and practice hands-on conservation methods.
Purpose:
• To become aware of federal, state and local laws that protect cemeteries and human burials.
• To increase the number of recorded cemeteries across Florida and to aid in preservation of these endangered sites.
• To demonstrate minimal management practices that can extend the life of a local cemetery.
Course Outline:
• Introduction to cemeteries as outdoor museums of a community
• Laws protecting cemeteries
• Management practices to preserve historic cemeteries and markers
• Recording historic cemeteries
o FMSF short form for cemeteries
o Headstone documentation
• Strategies for defining site boundaries & buried features
• Hands-on preservation of cemetery landscape, Oaklawn Cemetery, Tampa
o Maintenance recommendations for managing a city-owned cemetery
- Mowing
- Security
- Outreach and Education opportunities
o Headstone maintenance and managing volunteer clean-ups
- Biological growth removal
- D2 demonstration
o Cemetery studies to further preservation goals
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Recording headstones and sample inscriptions
More Instructors: Jeff Moates Jeff is the Director of the West Central Regional Center of FPAN. He earned a M.A. in History/Historical Archaeology and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of West Florida. Jeff’s work experiences prior to FPAN include employment as a field tech and crew chief with Archaeological Consultants, Inc (Sarasota, FL), an underwater archaeologist for the FL Bureau of Archaeological Research, and museum curator at the Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez. Rebecca O'Sullivan Becky O’Sullivan is the Outreach Coordinator for the regional office. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Florida and a Master’s degree in Applied Anthropology with a concentration in Cultural Resource Management from the University of South Florida. Sarah Miller Sarah Miller received her Masters degree in Anthropology from East Carolina University in 2001 where she developed archaeology education programs at Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. Upon graduation from ECU, Ms. Miller supervised field and lab projects with public involvement for the Kentucky Archaeological Survey, as well as reviewing compliance projects for the Kentucky Heritage Council. She now serves as Director for FPAN’s Northeast Regional Center, statewide coordinator for Project Archaeology, and sits on the Historic Resource Review Board for St. Johns County. Her specialties include public archaeology, historical archaeology, 19th century material culture and historic cemeteries. (1 Ratings)
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