Engaging with the dead : exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body /

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Engaging with the Dead' adopts a cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead. Nineteen papers highlight the current vitality of 'death studies' an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bradbury, Jennie (Editor ), Scarre, Christopher (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Temas:
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Social archaeology.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500.
Restes humains (Archéologie)
Archéologie sociale.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Social archaeology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : eEngaging with the dead / Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre
  • Tracking the dead in the Neolithic : the "invisible dead" in Britain / Mandy Jay and Chris Scarre
  • Mind the gap : what did Late Bronze Age people do with their dead? : evidence from Cliffs End, Kent / Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Romano-British rural burial practices in south-east England / Alexander Smith
  • Iron Age mortuary practices and beliefs in the Southern Levant / David Ilan
  • Taphonomy of human remains exposed in burial chambers, with special reference to Near Eastern hypogea, ossuaries and burial caves / Arkadiusz Soltysiak and Rafal A. Fetner
  • Protracted burial practices and cremation in the ancient Near East : two independent phenomena? / Candida Felli
  • Shifting identities : the human corpse and treatment of the dead in the Levantine Bronze Age / Jennie Bradbury and Graham Philip
  • Looking forward to look back: How investigations of historical burial populations can inform our interpretations of prehistoric burial practice / Amanda Murphy and Andrew Chamberlain
  • Developing and implementing "big picture" approaches in bioarchaeology : opportunities and challenges / Charlotte Roberts
  • Dead and (un)buried : reconstructing attitudes to death in long-term perspective / Mike Parker Pearson
  • Reanimating the dead : the circulation of human bone in the British later Bronze Age / Joanna Brück
  • Cultural memory and the invisible dead : the role of "old objects" in burial contexts / Peter Pfälzner
  • The visible dead : ethnographic perspectives on the curation, display and circulation of human remains in Iron Age Britain / Ian Armit
  • The distribution of graves and the food within : evidence from late 3rd to 2nd millennia BC Mari, Syria / Sarah Lange
  • Variations on a tomb : the Umm el-Marra mortuary complex in the context of elite burial ritual in 3rd-millennium western Syria / Sarah Yukich
  • Living with the dead, past and present : a reinterpretation of Southwest Asia's Neolithic mortuary practices in light of contemporary theories of bereavement / Karina Croucher
  • Materiality, identity, mutability : iIrresolvable tensions within burial reform / Julie Rugg
  • Beyond the invisible dead : future priorities, opportunities and challenges / Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre.

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