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Death embodied : archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse /
"In April 1485, a marble sarcophagus was found on the outskirts of Rome. It contained the remains of a young Roman woman so well-preserved that she appeared to have only just died and the sarcophagus was placed on public view, attracting great crowds. Such a find reminds us of the power of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Colección: | Studies in funerary archaeology ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 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.