Death embodied
Subtitle: archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse
By: edited by Zoë L. Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham
Series: Studies in funerary archaeology -- volume 9
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781782979432; 9781782972167
Subjects: Burial; Death; Human remains (Archaeology); Social archaeology; Dead; Ancient Funeral rites and ceremonies; Excavations (Archaeology); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Embodying death in archaeology / Emma-Jayne Graham; title: Neither fish nor fowl : burial practices between inhumation and cremation / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury; title: Corporeal concerns : the role of the body in the transformation of Roman mortuary practices / Emma-Jayne Graham; title: "(Un)touched by decay" : Anglo-Saxon encounters with dead bodies / Zoë L. Devlin; title: Funerary and post-depositional body treatments at the Middle Anglo-Saxon Cemetery winnall II : norm, variety, and forms of deviance / Edeltraud Aspöck; title: The burnt, the whole and the broken : funerary variability in the Linearbandkeramik / Daniela Hofmann; title: Practices of ritual marginalization in late prehistoric Veneto : evidence from the field / Elisa Perego, Massimo Saracino, Lorenzo Zamboni, Vera Zanoni; title: Prehistoric Maltese death : democratic theatre or elite democracy? / Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone.