The odd, the unusual, and the strange : bioarchaeological explorations of atypical burials / edited by Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki ; foreword by Eileen M. Murphy ; series foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Betsinger, Tracy K., editor.

Scott, Amy B., editor.

Tsaliki, Anastasia, editor.

Murphy, Eileen M., writer of foreword.

Larsen, Clark Spencer, writer of foreword.

Series:

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial.

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University of Florida Press, [2020]

Summary:

This volume focuses specifically on non-normative or atypical mortuary practices situated within a contextually-driven understanding of social and cultural norms surrounding the process of interment. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Europe, and Asia, this comprehensive volume stresses the commonality between non-normative or atypical treatments spanning millennia. Additionally, this volume strives to employ a holistic understanding of non-normative burials both in terms of assessing the significance and interpretation of individual cases of atypical interments, as well as to better understand the overall phenomenon of these mortuary practices, which continue to be the source of fascination and debate within mortuary archaeology.

Contents:

Deconstructing "deviant": an introduction to the history of atypical burials and the importance of context in the bioarchaeological record / Amy B. Scott, Tracy K. Betsinger, Anastasia Tsaliki

Bodies among fragments: non-normative inhumations among the preclassic and classic period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin / Jessica I. Cerezo-Román

Interpreting a multiple burial in an early ancestral Pueblo village / Ann L. W. Stodder

A young man twice burned: a deviant burial from West-Central Illinois / Della Collins Cook, Laura Gano, Kristin M. Hedman, Susan Spencer Helfrich, Andrew R. Thompson

The odd man out in a pioneer cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California / Patricia M. Lambert

Defining non-normative practices in a diverse funerary record: insights from the Caribbean / Hayley L. Mickleburgh, Menno L. P. Hoogland, Jason E. Laffoon, Darlene A. Weston, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Anne van Duijvenbode, Angus A. A. Mol

Good, bad, or indifferent? A unique "deviant" burial from the formative site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, South Central Andes / Olga U. Gabelmann, Lawrence S. Owens

The hunchback, the contortionist, the man with the stolen identity, and the one who will be born in the afterlife: pre-Hispanic deviant burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru / Wies?aw Wi?ckowski, Mi?osz Giersz, Roberto Pimentel Nita

What's the norm? "irregular" and "regular" burial practices of the early iron age in Central Europe / Nils Müller-Scheessel, Carola Benszin, Gisela Grupe, Annette Schwentke, Anja Staskiewicz, Thomas Tütken, Joachim Wahl

Burial in a kiln: transgression and punishment in late antiquity / Anastasia Tsaliki

Variation beyond the grave: contextualizing unusual burials in early medieval Bohemia / Lauren Hosek

Theoretical and methodological approaches to non-normative burials in Finland in the eleventh-thirteenth centuries AD / Ulla Moilanen

Atypical burials in early medieval Poland: a critical overview / Leszek Gardela

Does health define deviancy? Non-normative burials in post-medieval Poland / Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott

The "vampires" of Lesbos: detecting and interpreting anti-revenant ritual in Greece / Sandra Garvie-Lok, Anastasia Tsalik

Natural mummification as a non-normative mortuary custom of modern period Sicily (1600-1800) / Dario Piombino-Mascali, Kenneth C. Nystrom

Out of range? Non-normative funerary practices from the neolithic to the early twentieth century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Scott D. Haddow, Josh W. Sadvari, Christopher J. Knüsel, Sophie V. Moore, Clark S. Larsen, Selin E. Nugent

Deviant treatment of the body as a mortuary ritual: a case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan / Takeshi Ishikawa

Ancestors, conflict, and criminality in ancient China and Mongolia / Christine Lee

Dependent deviance: castration and deviant burial / Kathryn Reusch

Afterword / Andrew Reynolds.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68340-121-2

1-68340-140-9