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

• Autore: Zoë L, Devlin
• Pubblicazione: Havertown, : Oxbow Books, 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Emma-Jayne, Graham
• 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Death embodied
• ISBN: 1-78297-946-8; 1-78297-944-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460860103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Funerary Archaeology