The materiality of death
Subtitle: bodies, burials, beliefs
By: edited by Fredrik Fahlander, Terje Oestigaard.
Contributors: Fahlander, Fredrik.; Oestigaard, Terje.; European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
Series: BAR international series -- 1768
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books [distributor
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781407302577
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Congresses; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses; Death -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Burial -- Congresses; Tombs -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "The majority of the texts in this volume were presented as working papers at the session, The materiality of death: bodies, burials, and beliefs, organised by Fredrik Fahlander and Terje Oestigaard at the XIIth European Association for Archaeologists annual meeting in Krakow, Poland in September 2006"--P. 13.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The materiality of death: bodies, burials, beliefs / Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard; title: Bodies. More than metaphor: approaching the human cadaver in archaeology / Liv Nilsson Stutz; title: A piece of the mesolithic. Horizontal stratigraphy and bodily manipulations at Skateholm / Fredrik Fahlander; title: Excavating the kings' bones: the materiality of death in practice and ethics today / Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard; title: From corpse to ancester: the role of tombside dining in the transformation of the body in ancient Rome / Regina Gee; title: Burials. Cremations, conjecture and contextual taphonomies: material strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland / Paul R.J. Duffy and Gavin MacGregor; title: Ritual and remembrance at archaic Crustumerium. The transformations of past and modern materialities in the cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) / Ulla Rajala; title: Reuse in Finnish cremation cemeteries under level ground: examples of collective memory / Anna Wickholm; title: Life and death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula / Ana M.S. Bettencourt; title: Norwegian face-urns: local context and interregional contacts / Malin Aasbøe; title: The use of ochre in Stone Age burials of the east Baltic / Ilga Zagorska; title: Beliefs. "Death myths": performing of rituals and variations in corpse treatment during the migration period in Norway / Siv Kristoffersen and Terje Oestigaard; title: Reproduction and relocation of death in Iron Age Scandinavia / Terje Gansum; title: A road for the Viking's soul / Åke Johansson; title: A road to the other side / Camilla Grön; title: Stones and bones: the myth of Ymer and mortuary practices with an example from the migration period in Uppland, Central Sweden / Christina Lindgren.