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Am Rande des Grabs : Todeskonzepte und Bestattungsritual in der frühmittelalterlichen alamannia / Barbara Hausmair ; illustration cover Martin Valkhoff.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hausmair, Barbara, author.
Contributor:
Valkhoff, M. F., illustrator.
Language:
German
Subjects (All):
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death--Social aspects.
Death.
Human remains (Archaeology).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (372 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Leiden, [Netherlands] : Sidestone Press, 2015.
Language Note:
German
Summary:
The original circumstances in which archaeological remains came into being are crucial for the interpretation of the material record. Burials are first and foremost a result of a very traumatic event in a society - the death of one of its members. It is due to this context that burials represent a primary source for understanding past societies' attitudes towards death.Barbara Hausmair traces death concepts and their influence on mortuary rituals in early medieval communities in what is today known as southwest Germany. Using the cemeteries of Bad Mingolsheim, Horb-Altheim and Weingarten as ca
Contents:
Vorwort; Einleitung; Die Archäologie und der Tod - Überblick zur Forschungsgeschichte; 1.1 Gräberfeldarchäologie der Merowingerzeit in Südwestdeutschland; 1.1.1 Gräberfeldarchäologie und Sozialstrukturen; 1.1.2 Ethnizitäten als Problem der Forschung; 1.2 Theorie und Grab; 1.2.1 Kulturevolutionismus und kulturhistorische Forschung - Anfänge der Archäologie; 1.2.2 Prozessuale Archäologie - Gräber in Zahlen; 1.2.3 Postprozessuale Strömungen - Kontext, Symbole und Grab; 1.2.4 Eklektische Denkansätze und Thanatoarchäologie; Thanatologische Theorie und frühmittelalterliche Gräberfeldarchäologie
3.3.1 Aufteilung des Weingartner Gräberfeldes in zwei FallbeispieleMethodik; 4.1 Statistik - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen; 4.2 Datenaufbereitung und Aufbau der Datenbank; 4.2.1 Basistabelle Bestattungen; 4.2.2 Untertabelle Objekte; 4.2.3 Untertabelle Anthropologie; 4.2.4 Untertabelle Pathologien; 4.2.5 Untertabelle Verwandtschaft; 4.3 Verwendete statistische Verfahren; 4.3.1 Clusteranalysen; 4.3.2 Deskriptive Analysen der Cluster-Ergebnisse; Bad Mingolsheim; 5.1 Kombinationsgruppen; 5.2 Vergleich der Kombinationsgruppen; 5.3 Interpretationsmöglichkeiten der erfassten Muster in Bad Mingolsheim
8.1 Die Toten und die Lebenden in Bad Mingolsheim, Horb-Altheim und Weingarten
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 7, 2015).
ISBN:
90-8890-296-8

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