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