Death and burial in Iron Age Britain /

Archaeologists have long acknowledged the absence of a regular and recurrent burial rite in the British Iron Age, and have looked to rites such as cremation and scattering of remains to explain the minimal impact of funerary practices on the archaeological record. Pit-burials or the deposit of disar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harding, D. W. (Dennis William) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Iron age > Great Britain.
Tombs > Great Britain.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Great Britain.
Britons.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Grande-Bretagne.
Tombeaux > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Britons
Celtic antiquities
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Iron age
Tombs
Great Britain > Antiquities, Celtic.
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Defining issues
  • Mortuary practices, problems, and analysis
  • Communities of the dead: formal cemeteries and burial grounds
  • Dead among the living landscape
  • Focal and signal burials
  • Graves and grave-goods
  • Social and ritual violence and death
  • Gender issues
  • Animal burials and animal symbolism
  • Conclusions: death and burial in the Iron Age.

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