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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 pages)
• Disciplina: 393/.930937
• Soggetto topico: Funeral rites and ceremonies - Rome; Human remains (Archaeology); Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
• Persona (resp. second.): PearceJohn <1969->; WeekesJake
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Death as a process
• ISBN: 1-78570-326-9; 1-78570-324-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810564803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in funerary archaeology ; ; Volume 12.