Recent prehistoric enclosures and funerary practices in Europe : proceedings of the international meeting held at the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal, November 2012) / edited by António Carlos de Valera.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Valera, António Carlos, editor.

Conference Name:

Recent Prehistoric Enclosures and Funerary Practices in Europe (Meeting) (2012 : Lisbon, Portugal)

Series:

BAR international series ; 2676.

BAR international series ; 2676

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Europe--Congresses.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Burial.

Europe.

Burial--Europe--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

iii, 154 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2014.

Contents:

The times and timings of enclosures / Alasdair Whittle

Enclosures & burial in middle & late Neolithic Britain / Alex Gibson

The place of human remains and funerary practices in recent neolithic ditched and walled enclosures in the west of France (IV-III Mill. BC) / Audrey Blanchard, Jean-Noël Guyodo, Ludovic Soler

Funerary practices and body manipulation at Neolithic and Chalcolithic Perdigões ditched enclosures (South Portugal) / António Carlos Valera, Ana Maria Silva, Claudia Cunha, Lucy Shaw Evangelista

Skeletons in the ditch: funerary activity in ditched enclosures of Porto Torrão (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja) / Filipa Rodrigues

Enclosures and funerary practices: about an archaeology in search for the symbolic dimension of social relations / Susana Oliveira Jorge

Human bones from Chalcolithic walled enclosures of Portuguese estremadura: the examples of Zambujal and Leceia / Michael Kunst, João Luís Cardoso, Anna Waterman

Human sacrifices with cannibalistic practices in a pit enclosure? The extraordinary early Neolithic site of Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany) / Andrea Zeeb-Lanz

Gendered burials at an henge-like enclosure near Magdeburg, central Germany: a tale of reverence and ritual killing? / André Spatzier Marcus Stecher, Kurt W. Alt. François Bertemes

The Copper age ditched settlement at Conelle de Arcevia (Central Italy) / Alberto Cazzella, Giulia Recchia

Funerary practices in the ditched enclosures of Camino de las Yeseras: ritual, temporal and spatial diversity / Patrícia Rios, Corina Liesau, Concepción Blasco

Recent prehistory enclosures & funerary practices / José Enrique Márquez Romero, Vítor Jímenez Jaímez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781407313184

1407313185

OCLC:

899215563