Engaging with the dead: exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body
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...
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Oxford Philadelphia
Oxbow Books
2017
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Studies in funerary archaeology (Vol. 13)
Año: 2017 |
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| Colección / Revista: | Studies in funerary archaeology
Vol. 13 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Funeral
/ Pre- and early history
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión AG Vida religiosa HH Arqueología |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Collection of essays
B Social archaeology B Burial History B Human remains (Archaeology) B Funeral rites and ceremonies History B Excavations (archaeology) B Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient B Conference program 2014 (Durham) |
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| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | "This volume presents papers delivered at the conference held in Durham in June 2014 to mark the closing stages of the Invisible Dead project" (Acknowledgements) |
| ISBN: | 1785706632 |