The Mythmaking Of Mourning

                                                     Lily Butterworth Spring 2024 Project Goals and Background Research What are the differences in grave markers, symbolism, and offerings between children and adults and how does time influence/change that? Throughout the course of history, death has been the one true constant connecting us all through grief. Mourning rituals and periods of grief have been noted for millennia, but how, if at all, does this change throughout the centuries of  medical, economic, and cultural innovation? ‘ Childness’: An Alternative Approach to the Archaeology of Childhood through Cemetary Studies , found that “ children’s burials became more visible in the cemetery landscape in the seventeenth century, reflecting their greater presence in public spaces generally, as the family’s affection ...