Death embodied : archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse

Weitere Verfasser: Devlin, Zoe
Graham, Emma-Jayne
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Umfang/Format: 174 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Studies in funerary archaeology ; 9
ISBN: 1-78297-943-3
9781782979432
9781782979449
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 8 Datensätze
Online-Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Embodying death in archaeology / Emma-Jayne Graham
  • Neither fish nor fowl : burial practices between inhumation and cremation / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
  • Corporeal concerns : the role of the body in the transformation of Roman mortuary practices / Emma-Jayne Graham
  • "(Un)touched by decay" : Anglo-Saxon encounters with dead bodies / Zoë L. Devlin
  • Funerary and post-depositional body treatments at the Middle Anglo-Saxon Cemetery winnall II : norm, variety, and forms of deviance / Edeltraud Aspöck
  • The burnt, the whole and the broken : funerary variability in the Linearbandkeramik / Daniela Hofmann
  • Practices of ritual marginalization in late prehistoric Veneto : evidence from the field / Elisa Perego, Massimo Saracino, Lorenzo Zamboni, Vera Zanoni
  • Prehistoric Maltese death : democratic theatre or elite democracy? / Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone.