Background
Edward L. Bell was born in 1963. His first archaeological experience began when he was 11. Edward assisted avocational archaeologists' excavations at the well-known Rockelein site in New Jersey in 1974.
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Edward L. Bell graduated Bard College at Simon’s Rock (Simon's Rock Early College) with Associate of Arts in 1982.
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Edward L. Bell was a graduate of Boston University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1985 and a Master of Arts in 1987.
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With increased demands for archaeological assistance to identify and preserve threatened historical cemeteries, this comprehensive reference work will prove useful. An introductory essay provides an overview of scholarly trends and prospects, demonstrates the interpretive potential of historical mortuary sites, and offers a means to integrate multidisciplinary inquiry within a broader view of the historical past. The bibliography, indexed by keywords, includes over 1,900 citations to scholarly research on cemetery sites dating from the 15th through the 20th century.
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1994
Edward L. Bell was born in 1963. His first archaeological experience began when he was 11. Edward assisted avocational archaeologists' excavations at the well-known Rockelein site in New Jersey in 1974.
Edward L. Bell graduated from Bard College at Simon’s Rock (Simon's Rock Early College) with an Associate of Arts in 1982, Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985, and a Master of Arts in 1987.
Bell's archaeological field training began in 1974 when he was allowed to join avocational archaeologists conducting controlled salvage excavations at the well-known Rockelein site on Mashipicong Island in the Delaware River, Sussex County, New Jersey.
In 1980, Edward received a research grant from the Youth Grants program of the National Endowment for the Humanities for the archaeological study of a nineteenth-century iron mining settlement. He completed a 300-page research report before graduating from high school.
From 1989 to 1994 Bell worked as a staff archaeologist and preservation planner for Massachusetts Historical Commission. Edward L. Bell was appointed as a Senior Archaeologist and then as Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer of Massachusetts Historical Commission.
Bell is an author of numerous books, research, and writing projects on archeological perspectives including Our Homestead and Field (1985), Historical Archaeology at the Hudson Poor Farm Cemetery (1993), Vestiges of Mortality and Remembrance: A Bibliography on the Historical Archaeology of Cemeteries (1994).
Edward is also a contributor of articles, essays to publications, including Provincetown Magazine, Northeast Historical Archaeology, and World Archaeology.
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1994