Deviant burial in the archaeological record

This volume contains 12 papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting (-)
Otros Autores: Murphy, Eileen M. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Oxbow Books [2008]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in funerary archaeology ; volume 2.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Unusual burials and necrophobia : an insight into the burial archaeology of fear / Anastasia Tsaliki
  • What actually is a "deviant burial?" : comparing German-language and Anglophone research on deviant burials / Edeltraud Aspöck
  • Odd one out? : earlier Neolithic deposition of human remains in caves and rock shelters in the Yorkshire dales / Stephany Leach
  • The value of palaeoteratology and forensic pathology for the understanding of atypical burials : two Mediterranean examples from the field / Philippe Charlier
  • Ritual inhumations and "deposits" of children among the Geto-Dacians / Valerin Sîrbu
  • Aspects of deviant burial in Roman Britain / Alison Taylor
  • Normal, deviant,and atypical : burial variation in Late Saxon Wessex, c. AD 700-1100 / Annia Kristina Cherryson
  • Charcoal burial : a minority burial rite in early medieval Europe / James Holloway
  • Off with their heads : the Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, East Yorkshire / Jo Buckberry
  • Unusual life, unusual death, and the fate of the corpse : a case study from dynastic Europe / Estella Weiss-Krejci
  • The origins of cilliní in Ireland / Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy
  • Grief, grievance, and grandeur : an eighteenth-century mausoleum in Mainham, Co. Kildare / Mark Gordon.