ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes and integrates the major findings about the cemetery and to identify overall patterns and their potential meanings. Strictly in terms of the time frame of cemetery use, one might associate the Alameda-Stone cemetery with the Victorian cemetery movement. Archaeologically, we were able to identify military cemetery based on a variety of contextual clues, including the spatial locations and positions of graves in that section, artifact types, osteological variables, and other factors that correlate with historical records. Osteological analyses of skeletal materials allowed us to infer the ages, sexes, and biological affinities of individuals as well as possible occupations or domestic activities, based on degenerative changes and musculoskeletal evidence for work. Religious or ceremonial artifacts recovered from graves in Tucson cemetery clearly signify some of the influence that Catholicism had on population. Items such as jewelry included crosses, crucifixes, medallions, beads, and other elements of fragmented rosaries as well as wire from floral funerary crowns.
