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The materiality of death : bodies, burials, beliefs

Title: The materiality of death : bodies, burials, beliefs / edited by Fredrik Fahlander, Terje Oestigaard.
Publication: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2008.

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160 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 1768

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BAR international series ; 1768.

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Congress.

Note

"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.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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 ancestor: 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.

ISBN

9781407302577
1407302574

LCCN

2008396606

OCLC

229390813
ocn229390813
SCSB-5413897

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Columbia University Libraries