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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794936203321

Titolo

Death as a process / / edited by John Pearce and Jake Weekes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78570-326-9

1-78570-324-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Collana

Studies in Funerary Archaeology ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

393/.930937

Soggetti

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Rome

Human remains (Archaeology)

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: death as a process in Roman funerary archaeology / John Pearce -- Space, object, and process in the Koutsongila Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai, Greece / Joseph L. Rife and Melissa Morison -- Archaeology and funerary cult: the stratigraphy of soils in the cemeteries of Emilia Romagna (Northern Italy) / Jacopo Ortalli -- Funerary archaeology at St Dunstan's Terrace, Canterbury / Jake Weekes -- Buried Batavians: mortuary rituals of a rural frontier community / Joris Aarts and Stijn Heeren -- 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-Rost -- Some recent work on Romano-British cemeteries / Paul Booth -- 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 -- Animals in funerary practices: sacrifices, offerings and meals at Rome and in the provinces / Sébastien Lepetz -- How did it go? Putting the process back into cremation / Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Afterword: process and polysemy: an appreciation of a cremation burial / Jake Weekes.