Subtitled Reconstructing history through skeletal analysis', the fourteen papers in this volume address the practical and scientific issues involved in studying cemetery remains in North America. Though using American and Canadian case studies, many of the papers have wider application and relevance. Contributors include: L Goldstein (Politics, law, pragmatics and human burial excavations); D Ubelaker (Historic cemetery analysis); S Nawrocki (Taphonomic processes in historic cemeteries); S Saunders & others (Can skeletal samples accurately represent the living population they come from?); J Harrington & R Blakely (Bioarchaeology of historic remains in nonmortuary contexts); C LArsern & others (Life and death on the Midwestern frontier); T Crist (Bone chemistry analysis and documentary archaeology) .