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BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF RITUAL AND RELIGION.
The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion' is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of 'environmental' remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy betwe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
OXBOW Books,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Plates; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Ritual and Religion: Bioarchaeological Perspectives; 2. Sacred to the Soil: Micromorphology, Geoarchaeology, and the Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion, with Reference to the Iron Age Site of High Pasture Cave, Scotland; 3. Pollen Signatures of a Ritual Process in the Collective Burial Cave of Cova des Pas (Late Bronze Age, Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain); 4. The Final Masquerade: Resinous Substances and Roman Mortuary Rites.
- 5. Plant Rituals and Fuel in Roman Cemeteries of Apulia (SE Italy)6. Feasting in a Sacred Grove: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Gallo-Roman Sanctuary of Kempraten, Switzerland; 7. Ritual Meals and Votive Offerings: Shells and Animal Bones at the Archaic Sanctuary of Apollo at Ancient Zone, Thrace, Greece; 8. Animals and Rituals in Iron Age Iberian Settlements in the Region of Valencia, Spain; 9. Animal Biographies in the Iron Age of Wessex: Winnall Down, UK, Revisited; 10. Faunal Remains and Ritualisation: Case Studies from Bronze Age Caves in Central Italy.
- 11. Towards an Archaeology of the Social Meanings of the Environment: Plants and Animals at the Prehistoric Ceremonial and Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)12. Animals and Worldviews: A Diachronic Approach to Tooth and Bone Pendants from the Mesolithic to the Medieval Period in Estonia; 13. Birds in Death: Avian Archaeology and the Mortuary Record in the Scottish Islands; 14. Beyond Bones: Ritual and Social Secrets in Archaeological Remains; Back Cover.