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The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs

Fredrik Fahlander and Terje Oestigaard 2008 © BAR Publishing
16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006, exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death.
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407332574 (ebook)
  • 9781407302577 (paperback)
BAR Number
  • S1768
Subject
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
  • Scandinavia
  • Western Europe and Britain
  • Multiperiod
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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
  • Bodies
  • Chapter 2: More than Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology
  • Chapter 3: A Piece of the Mesolithic Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm
  • Chapter 4: Excavating the Kings’ Bones: The Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today
  • Chapter 5: From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome
  • Burials
  • Chapter 6: Cremations, Conjecture and Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies During the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland
  • Chapter 7: Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium: The Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy)
  • Chapter 8: Reuse in Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground– Examples of Collective Memory
  • Chapter 9: Life and Death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula
  • Chapter 10: Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional Contacts
  • Chapter 11: The Use of Ochre in Stone Age Burials of the East Baltic
  • Beliefs
  • Chapter 12: ”Death Myths”: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway
  • Chapter 13: Reproduction and Relocation of Death in Iron Age Scandinavia
  • Chapter 14: A Road for the Viking’s Soul
  • Chapter 15: A Road to the Other Side
  • Chapter 16: Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in Uppland, Central Sweden
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