The public archaeology of death / edited by Howard Williams, Benedict Wills-Eve and Jennifer Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Williams, Howard, 1972- editor.

Wills-Eve, Benedict, editor.

Osborne, Jennifer, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human remains (Archaeology)--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2019.

Contents:

Foreword / Jodie Lewis

Dead relevant : introducing the public archaeology of death / Howard Williams

The St Patrick's Chapel excavation project : public engagement with the rescue excavation of an early medieval cemetery in south west Wales / Marion Shiner, Katie A. Hemer and Rhiannon Comeau

Death's diversity : the case of Llangollen Museum / Suzanne Evans and Howard Williams

Displaying the deviant : Sutton Hoo's Sand people / Madeline Walsh and Howard Williams

Grave expectations : burial posture in popular and museum representations / Sian Mui

Photographing the dead : images in public mortuary archaeology / Chiara Bolchini

Death on canvas : artistic reconstructions in Viking age mortuary archaeology / Leszek Gardeła

Envisioning cremation : art and archaeology / Aaron Watson and Howard Williams

Controversy surrounding human remains from the First World War / Sam Munsch

Here lies "ZOMBIESLAYER2000", may he rest in pieces : mortuary archaeology in MMOS, MMORPGS, and MOBAS / Rachael Nicholson

Death's drama : mortuary practice in Vikings season 1-4 / Howard Williams

Afterword / Karina Croucher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Public archaeology of death.

ISBN:

9781781795934

1781795932

OCLC:

1007570660

Publisher Number:

99980298906