Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change : Death in Transition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norstein, Frida Espolin.

Contributor:

Selsvold, Irene.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Archaeology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial--Social aspects.

Burial.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change examines the relationships between burial practices and societal transformations in the past.

Contents:

Death and transformation : burial practices and societal change / Frida Espolin Norstein, Irene Selsvold, and Sofia Voutsaki

Mortuary practices and societal change in early Mycenaean Greece / Sofia Voutsaki

Grave participants : rethinking funerary participation as strategies for social change / Brian Costello and Reanna S. Phillips

Change and continuity : cremation and inhumation during the Christianisation period in Scandinavia (c. 800-1200 CE) / Frida Espolin Norstein

Dying well in a damaged planet : emergent burial practices and the ecologies of the dead / Troy Fielder

The urning question : cultural change in Roman-period Slovenia seen through the choice of funerary urns / Kaja Stemberger Flegar

The Viking-Period burials of the Hebrides : the maritime landscape, grave goods, and change / Joseph Thomas Ryder

Narrating ethnic identity and competition in Lombard southern Italy through burial practices (6th-7th centuries) / Giulia Zornetta

Golden funerary masks and societal change narratives in Ancient Macedonia / Jessica Clementi

Building the Christian cemetery: Religious evolution in burial practices in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula / Patricia Valle Abad, Laura Blanco-Torrejón

Cypriot burial practices at the close of the Bronze Age : continuities and changes in the light of the 12th century BCE transformations / Teresa Bürge

Changing burial practices in Late Antiquity : embracing complexities / Irene Selsvold

Rethinking burial practices and period transitions through a posthumanist and new materialist lens / Rachel J. Crellin

Death changes everything. Archaeology and the human scale of change / Liv Nilsson Stutz.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781040257579

1040257577

9781003441557

1003441556

9781040257630

1040257631

OCLC:

1467878963