Recent prehistoric enclosures and funerary practices in Europe
Subtitle: proceedings of the international meeting held at the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal, November 2012)
By: edited by António Carlos de Valera
Contributors: Valera, António Carlos, editor
Series: BAR international series -- 2676; BAR international series -- 2676.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781407313184
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology); Burial; Prehistoric peoples
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The times and timings of enclosures / Alasdair Whittle; title: Enclosures & burial in middle & late Neolithic Britain / Alex Gibson; title: The place of human remains and funerary practices in recent neolithic ditched and walled enclosures in the west of France (IV-III Mill. BC) / Audrey Blanchard, Jean-Noël Guyodo, Ludovic Soler; title: Funerary practices and body manipulation at Neolithic and Chalcolithic Perdigões ditched enclosures (South Portugal) / António Carlos Valera, Ana Maria Silva, Claudia Cunha, Lucy Shaw Evangelista; title: Skeletons in the ditch: funerary activity in ditched enclosures of Porto Torrão (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja) / Filipa Rodrigues; title: Enclosures and funerary practices: about an archaeology in search for the symbolic dimension of social relations / Susana Oliveira Jorge; title: Human bones from Chalcolithic walled enclosures of Portuguese estremadura: the examples of Zambujal and Leceia / Michael Kunst, João Luís Cardoso, Anna Waterman; title: Human sacrifices with cannibalistic practices in a pit enclosure? The extraordinary early Neolithic site of Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany) / Andrea Zeeb-Lanz; title: Gendered burials at an henge-like enclosure near Magdeburg, central Germany: a tale of reverence and ritual killing? / André Spatzier Marcus Stecher, Kurt W. Alt. François Bertemes; title: The Copper age ditched settlement at Conelle de Arcevia (Central Italy) / Alberto Cazzella, Giulia Recchia; title: Funerary practices in the ditched enclosures of Camino de las Yeseras: ritual, temporal and spatial diversity / Patrícia Rios, Corina Liesau, Concepción Blasco; title: Recent prehistory enclosures & funerary practices / José Enrique Márquez Romero, Vítor Jímenez Jaímez.