The 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Livarda, Alexandra (Editor ), Madgwick, Richard (Editor ), Riera Mora, Santiago (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2018.
Temas:
Archaeology and religion.
Rites and ceremonies.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Archéologie et religion.
Rites et cérémonies.
Restes humains (Archéologie)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ritual and religion: bioarchaeological perspectives / Richard Madgwick
  • 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 / Jo McKenzie
  • Pollen signatures of a ritual process in the collective burial cave of Cova des Pas (Late Bronze Age, Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain) / Yannick Miras
  • Final masquerade: resinous substances and Roman mortuary rites / Carl Heron
  • Plant rituals and fuel in Roman cemeteries of Apulia (SE Italy) / Girolamo Fiorentino
  • Feasting in a sacred grove: a multidisciplinary study of the Gallo-Roman sanctuary of Kempraten, Switzerland / Lucia Wick
  • Ritual meals and votive offerings: shells and animal bones at the archaic sanctuary of Apollo at Ancient Zone, Thrace, Greece / Daphne Nikolaidou
  • Animals and rituals in Iron Age Iberian settlements in the region of Valencia, Spain / Maria Pilar Iborra Eres
  • Animal biographies in the Iron Age of Wessex: Winnall Down, UK, Revisited / James Morris
  • Faunal remains and ritualisation: case studies from Bronze Age caves in central Italy / Leonardo Salari
  • 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) / Ethel Allue
  • Animals and worldviews: a diachronic approach to tooth and bone pendants from the Mesolithic to the Medieval period in Estonia / Eve Rannamae
  • Birds in death: Avian archaeology and the mortuary record in the Scottish Islands / Jacqui Mulville.

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