An edition of The materiality of death
(2008)
The materiality of death
bodies, burials, beliefs
by Fredrik Fahlander and Terje Oestigaard
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Burial, Death, Congresses, Human remains (Archaeology), Ancient Funeral rites and ceremonies, Tombs, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Human remains (archaeology), Death, social aspects, Funeral Rites, History, Attitude to Death, Ethnology, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Mortuary Practice, Dead, Excavations (Archaeology)| Edition | Availability |
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The materiality of death: bodies, burials, beliefs
2008, Archaeopress, Available from Hadrian Books [distributor
in English
1407302574 9781407302577
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Table of Contents
The materiality of death: bodies, burials, beliefs / Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Bodies. More than metaphor: approaching the human cadaver in archaeology / Liv Nilsson Stutz
A piece of the mesolithic. Horizontal stratigraphy and bodily manipulations at Skateholm / Fredrik Fahlander
Excavating the kings' bones: the materiality of death in practice and ethics today / Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard
From corpse to ancester: the role of tombside dining in the transformation of the body in ancient Rome / Regina Gee
Burials. Cremations, conjecture and contextual taphonomies: material strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland / Paul R.J. Duffy and Gavin MacGregor
Ritual and remembrance at archaic Crustumerium. The transformations of past and modern materialities in the cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) / Ulla Rajala
Reuse in Finnish cremation cemeteries under level ground: examples of collective memory / Anna Wickholm
Life and death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula / Ana M.S. Bettencourt
Norwegian face-urns: local context and interregional contacts / Malin Aasbøe
The use of ochre in Stone Age burials of the east Baltic / Ilga Zagorska
Beliefs. "Death myths": performing of rituals and variations in corpse treatment during the migration period in Norway / Siv Kristoffersen and Terje Oestigaard
Reproduction and relocation of death in Iron Age Scandinavia / Terje Gansum
A road for the Viking's soul / Åke Johansson
A road to the other side / Camilla Grön
Stones and bones: the myth of Ymer and mortuary practices with an example from the migration period in Uppland, Central Sweden / Christina Lindgren.
Edition Notes
"The majority of the texts in this volume were presented as working papers at the session, The materiality of death: bodies, burials, and beliefs, organised by Fredrik Fahlander and Terje Oestigaard at the XIIth European Association for Archaeologists annual meeting in Krakow, Poland in September 2006"--P. 13.
Includes bibliographical references.
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