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Rituals of Death : From Prehistoric Times to Now / Stan Beckensall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckensall, Stan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--History.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.) ill
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, England : Pen & Sword Books Limited, [2022]
- Summary:
- We all must die, and how society deals with the disposal is fascinating in the way it reflects the beliefs of the people of the time and ways in which they honour or do not honour the dead. Having excavated prehistoric burials, the author weighs carefully the evidence of what people might have thought of the dead through the way they buried them and what was put into the graves. These excavations were done mainly with the help of young people, and the way that this has been organised in order to get the maximum information has been an essential part of the task. The author provides much detail of this that makes it more interesting and personal. Burial customs change, so the book includes a section on events such as the Black Death and cholera to show how such catastrophes change peoples minds and customs.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Detailed Landscapes
- Orkney
- Kilmartin Glen, Argyll
- Cumbria
- Irish Passage Graves
- Milfield Plain (Northumberland)
- Arbor Low
- Thornborough
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- Prehistoric Burial Excavations
- Money Mound, Sussex, and Its Votive Offerings
- Blawearie Cairns Excavation, Northumberland
- Fowberry and Weetwood Moor Excavations, Northumberland
- Corby's Crag Rock Shelter Burial, Northumberland
- The Significance Of Rock Art
- Lilburn Hill Farm Long Barrow
- Roughting Linn and Other 'Symbol' Stones
- Dunchraigaig Cairn, Kilmartin
- The Future of Excavation
- The Christian Period
- The Great Plague
- Hexham Excavations
- Reburial
- Modern Gravestones
- Inscriptions
- A Mausoleum: The Hopper Memorial
- Death Illustrations
- Public Health and Graveyards
- Alnwick Cemetery
- The Lyke Wake Dirge Ritual
- The Christian Rite of' The Burial of the Dead'
- End Piece
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781399098403
- 1399098403
- 9781399098380
- 1399098381
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