Death embodied : archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Devlin, Zoe, Graham, Emma-Jayne
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Series:	Studies in funerary archaeology ; volume 9.
Subjects:	Human remains (Archaeology) Dead > Social aspects > History > To 1500. Death > Social aspects > History > To 1500. Burial > History > To 1500. Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. Excavations (Archaeology) Social archaeology.

Table of Contents:

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.