Engaging with the dead : exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body / / edited by Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; Havertown, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 393/.930901
• Soggetto topico: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient; Human remains (Archaeology); Social archaeology
• Persona (resp. second.): BradburyJennie; ScarreChristopher
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : eEngaging with the dead / Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre -- Tracking the dead in the Neolithic : the "invisible dead" in Britain / Mandy Jay and Chris Scarre -- Mind the gap : what did Late Bronze Age people do with their dead? : evidence from Cliffs End, Kent / Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Romano-British rural burial practices in south-east England / Alexander Smith -- Iron Age mortuary practices and beliefs in the Southern Levant / David Ilan -- Taphonomy of human remains exposed in burial chambers, with special reference to Near Eastern hypogea, ossuaries and burial caves / Arkadiusz Soltysiak and Rafal A. Fetner -- Protracted burial practices and cremation in the ancient Near East : two independent phenomena? / Candida Felli -- Shifting identities : the human corpse and treatment of the dead in the Levantine Bronze Age / Jennie Bradbury and Graham Philip -- Looking forward to look back: How investigations of historical burial populations can inform our interpretations of prehistoric burial practice / Amanda Murphy and Andrew Chamberlain -- Developing and implementing "big picture" approaches in bioarchaeology : opportunities and challenges / Charlotte Roberts -- Dead and (un)buried : reconstructing attitudes to death in long-term perspective / Mike Parker Pearson -- Reanimating the dead : the circulation of human bone in the British later Bronze Age / Joanna Brück -- Cultural memory and the invisible dead : the role of "old objects" in burial contexts / Peter Pfälzner -- The visible dead : ethnographic perspectives on the curation, display and circulation of human remains in Iron Age Britain / Ian Armit -- The distribution of graves and the food within : evidence from late 3rd to 2nd millennia BC Mari, Syria / Sarah Lange -- Variations on a tomb : the Umm el-Marra mortuary complex in the context of elite burial ritual in 3rd-millennium western Syria / Sarah Yukich -- Living with the dead, past and present : a reinterpretation of Southwest Asia's Neolithic mortuary practices in light of contemporary theories of bereavement / Karina Croucher -- Materiality, identity, mutability : iIrresolvable tensions within burial reform / Julie Rugg -- Beyond the invisible dead : future priorities, opportunities and challenges / Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre.
• Titolo autorizzato: Engaging with the dead
• ISBN: 1-78570-760-4; 1-78570-664-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821566103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; ; Volume 13.