Research Catalog

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.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextUse in library GT3170 .M38 2008q OversizeOff-site

Details

Additional Authors
  • Fahlander, Fredrik.
  • Oestigaard, Terje.
  • European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting (12th : 2006 : Krakow, Poland)
Description
160 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.
Series Statement
BAR international series ; 1768
Uniform Title
BAR international series ; 1768.
Subject
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Congresses
  • Human remains (Archaeology) > Congresses
  • Death > Social aspects > Congresses
  • Burial > Congresses
  • Tombs > Congresses
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.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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
  • ocn229390813
  • SCSB-1477616
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library