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The materiality of death : bodies, burials, beliefs / edited by Fredrik Fahlander, Terje Oestigaard.
LIBRA GT3170 .F34 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fahlander, Fredrik.
- Series:
- BAR international series ; 1768.
- BAR international series ; 1768
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Congresses.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
- Death--Congresses.
- Death.
- Dead--Congresses.
- Dead.
- Burial--Congresses.
- Burial.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2008.
- 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.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781407302577
- 1407302574
- OCLC:
- 229390813
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