LC Subject Heading: Death in art
Item 12462
Headstone, 1806, Priscilla Slater, Portland, 1965
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1965 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 12463
Moses Johnson headstone, 1773, Portland, 1965
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1965 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.
