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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797974403321

Autore

Zoë L, Devlin

Titolo

Death embodied [[electronic resource] ] : Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Havertown, : Oxbow Books, 2015

ISBN

1-78297-946-8

1-78297-944-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Collana

Studies in Funerary Archaeology ; ; v.9

Altri autori (Persone)

Emma-Jayne, Graham

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Burial - History - To 1500

Human remains (Archaeology) - History - Social aspects - To 1500

Dead - History - Social aspects - To 1500

Death - History - To 1500

Burial

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient

Excavations (Archaeology)

Social archaeology

Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Human remains (Archaeology) - Social aspects - History - To 1500

Dead - Social aspects - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Embodying death in archaeology; 2. Neither Fish nor Fowl: Burial practices between inhumationand cremation; 3. Corporeal Concerns: The role of the body in the transformationof Roman mortuary practices; 4. '(Un)touched by decay': Anglo-Saxon encounters with dead bodies; 5. Funerary and Post-depositional Body Treatments at the Middle Anglo-SaxonCemetery Winnall II: Norm, variety - and deviance?; 6. The Burnt, the Whole and the Broken: Funerary variabilityin the Linearbandkeramik; 7. Practices of Ritual Marginalisation in Late Prehistoric Veneto:Evidence from the field

8. Prehistoric Maltese Death: Democratic theatre or elite democracy?