The People Buried Here
By Rebekah Jones
Overview:
Every major U.S. city was built atop an ancient one, and the hundreds of millions of people who lived and died here are still buried beneath it all. The People Buried Here is the first in a three-part novel series circumscribing nearly ten years of research, multiple academic and general publications, a master’s thesis, doctoral research, dozens of interviews, and cutting-edge developments in American History studies.
The People Buried Here is an investigation of the burial places and practices of North America, over space and through time, and their marriage with modern physical and social infrastructure. The story starts with Native American burial mounds plundered by road-pavers, earth movers and amateur archaeologists in South Louisiana, and advances to the Yellow Fever graveyards moved and resettled during 1960s suburban sprawl in the US Midwest.
This journalistically-styled book explores how and where people were buried here, how th…
