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CITATION: Sledzik, P.S. and N. Bellantoni (1994) "Bio-archaeological and bio-cultural evidence for the New England vampire folk belief." The American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94(2):269-274.

Sledzik and Bellantoni use paleopathology, bio-archaeology, historical data, and taphonomic indicators to analyze the unusual burial treatment of a 19th century American. Their sensitive anthropological study sheds light on the folk beliefs of the time, putting an alleged vampire burial in its historical context.

The abstract for this article can be found at the below link.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.1330940210/abstract