Social archaeology of funerary remains

Weitere Verfasser: Gowland, Rebecca.
Knüsel, Christopher.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2009.
Ausgabe: Reprint of 2006 ed.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 312 p. : ill., tabl., diagrs., maps ; 30 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Rebecca Gowland and Christopher J. Knüdsel
  • The intrinsic pattern of preservation of human skeletons and its influence on the interpretation of funerary behaviors / Silvia Bello and Peter Andrews
  • Pattern in human burial practice / Peter andrews and Silvia Bello
  • L’archéothanatologie ou l’archéologie de la mort (archaeoethnology or the archaeology of death) / Henri Duday
  • Neolithic burial taphonomy, ritual and interpretation in Britain and Ireland : a review / Jessica Beckett and John Robb
  • Cremation : the cheap option / Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Companions in death : the roles of animals in Anglo - Saxon and Viking cremation rituals in Britain / Julie M. Bond and Fay L. Worley
  • La Tène dietary variation in Central Europe : a stable isotope study of human skeletal remains from Bohemia / John D. Le Huray, Holger Schutkowski and Michael P. Richards
  • Immigrants on the Isle of Lewis : combining traditional funerary and modern isotope evidence to investigate social differentiation, migration and dietary change in the Outer Herbrides of Scotland / Janet Montgomery and Jane A. Evans
  • Ageing the past : examining age identity from funerary evidence / Rebecca Gowland
  • Gender, bioarchaeology and human ontogeny / Joanna R. Sofaer.
  • The gendered skeleton : anthropological interpretations of the bony pelvis / Pamela K. Stone and Dana Walrath
  • The osteology of monasticism in Medieval England / Simon Mays
  • Text, space and the evidence of human remains in English Late Medieval and Tudor disease culture : some problems and possibilities / Isla Fay
  • Of nomore use to men than in ages before : the Investiture Contest as a model for funerary interpretation / Christopher J. Knüdsel
  • Skeletal evidence and contexts of violence in the European Mesolithic and Neolithic / Rick Schulting
  • Beneath the façade : a skeletal model of domestic violence / Shannon A. Novak
  • Fragmentation of the body : comestibles, compost or customary rite / Christopher J. Knüdsel and Alan K. Outram
  • Altering identities : body modifications and the pre-Columbian Maya / Pamela L. Geller
  • The living dead and the dead living : burials, figurines and social performance in the Europen Mid Upper Paleolithic / Paul B. Pettitt.