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Death as a process : the archaeology of the Roman funeral /

The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the Roman...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pearce, John (Editor ), Weekes, Jake (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Colección:Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 12.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: Death as a process in Roman funerary archaeology: John Pearce; 2. Space, object, and process in the Koutsongila Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai, Greece: Joseph L. Rife and Melissa Moore Morison; 3. Archaeology and funerary cult: The stratigraphy of soils in the cemeteries of Emilia Romagna (northern Italy): Jacopo Ortalli; 4. Funerary archaeology at St Dunstan's Terrace, Canterbury: Jake Weekes; 5. Buried Batavians: Mortuary rituals of a rural frontier community: Joris Aarts and Stijn Heeren.
  • 6. They fought and died
  • but were covered with earth only years later: 'Mass graves' on the ancient battlefield of Kalkriese: Achim Rost and Susanne Wilbers-Rost7. Some recent work on Romano-British cemeteries: Paul Booth; 8. Funerary complexes from Imperial Rome: A new approach to anthropological study using excavation and laboratory data: Paola Catalano, Carla Caldarini, Flavio De Angelis and Walter Pantano; 9. Animals in funerary practices: Sacrifices, offerings and meals at Rome and in the provinces: Sébastien Lepetz.
  • 10. "How did it go?" Putting the process back into cremation: Jacqueline I. McKinley11. Afterword
  • Process and polysemy: An appreciation of a cremation burial: Jake Weekes.