The archaeology of cremation : burned human remains in funerary studies
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Burned human remains in funerary studies |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Thompson, Timothy James Upton,.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 244 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Studies in funerary archaeology ;
v. 8 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 12 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Fire and the body : fire and the people / Tim Thompson
- Flesh, fire, and funerary remains from the Neolithic site of La Varde, Guernsey : investigations past and present / Jenny Cataroche and Rebecca Gowland
- Past cremation practices from a bioarchaeological perspective : how new methods and techniques revealed conceptual changes in cremation practices during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age in Denmark / Lise Harvig
- The weight of matter : examining the potential skeletal weight for the bioarchaeological analysis of cremation at the Iron age necropolis of Tera (Portugal) / David Gonçalves, Vanessa Campanacho, Tim Thompson and Rui Mataloto
- Funerary rituals and ideologies in the Phoenician-Punic necropolis of Monte Sirai (Carbonia, Sardinia, italy) / Giampaolo Piga, Michele Guirguis and Ethel Allue
- The funerary practice of cremation at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) during high empire : contributions from the anthropological analysis of burned human bone / Filipa Cortesão Silva
- The integration of microscopic techniques in cremation studies : a new approach to understanding social identity among cremation practicing groups from early Anglo-Saxon England / Kirsty E. Squires
- Analysing cremated human remains from the southern Brazilian highlands : interpreting archaeological evidence of funerary practice at mound and enclosure complexes in the Pelotas River Valley / Priscilla Ferreira Ulguim
- Case applications of recent research on thermal effects on the skeleton / Douglas H. Ubelaker
- The interpretation and reconstruction of the post-mortem events in a case of scattered burned remains in Chile / Claudia Garrido-Varas and Marisol Intriago-Leiva
- Conclusion / Tim Thompson.
