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The loved body's corruption : archaeological contributions to the study of human mortality / edited by Jane Downes and Tony Pollard.

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The loved body's corruption : archaeological contributions to the study of human mortality / edited by Jane Downes and Tony Pollard.
Publication
Glasgow, Great Britain : Cruithne Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Downes, Jane, Ph. D.
  • Pollard, A. J.
  • Pollard, Tony.
Description
xiv, 223 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Death > Social aspects
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Human remains (Archaeology)
  • Exhumation
  • Burial
  • Death > sociology
  • Attitude to Death > history
  • Funeral Rites > history
  • Mortuary Practice > history
  • Archaeology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Death and after death / Shawn Haley -- Fearing and celebrating the dead in southern Madagascar / Mike Parker Pearson -- Cremation / Jane Downes -- The drowned and the saved / Tony Pollard -- Sleep by the shores of those icy seas / Owen Beattie -- The landscape context of the Iron-Age square-barrow burials, East Yorkshire / Bill Bevan -- The articulation of disarticulation / Simon Stoddart, M. Wysocki, and G. Burgess -- Infanticide in late-Iron-Age Scandinavia / Nancy L. Wicker -- The church lends a hand / Ross Samson -- Archaeologia Victoriana / Melanie Richmond -- Research and our recent ancestors / Jez Reeve and Margaret Cox -- The modern scourge / Charlotte Roberts -- A grave disturbance / Angela Boyle -- Death at the undertakers / Lucy Kirk and Helen Start -- The excavation of modern murder / J.R. Hunter.
ISBN
1873448066
LCCN
^^^99488557^
OCLC
40982010
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library