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16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006, exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death. Contents: Chapter 1. The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs (Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 2. More than Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology (Liv Nilsson Stutz); Chapter 3. A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm (Fredrik Fahlander); Chapter 4. Excavating the KingsAe Bones: The Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today 9Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 5. From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome (Regina Gee); Chapter 6. Cremations, Conjecture and Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland (Paul R J Duffy and Gavin MacGregor); Chapter 7. Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) (Ulla Rajala); Chapter 8. Reuse in Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground - Examples of Collective Memory (Anna Wickholm); Chapter 9. Life and Death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula (Ana M. S. Bettencourt); Chapter 10. Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional Contacts (Malin Aasbe); Chapter 11. The Use of Ochre in Stone Age Burials of the East Baltic (Ilga Zagorska); Chapter 12. oDeath Mythso: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway (Siv Kristoffersen and Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 13. Reproduction and Relocation of Death in Iron Age Scandinavia (Terje Gansum); Chapter 14. A Road for the VikingAes Soul (Ake Johansson); Chapter 15. A Road to the Other Side (Camilla Gr); Chapter 16. Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in Uppland, Central Sweden (Christina Lindgren).
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The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard (eds.)
Contents Chapter 1.
The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
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Bodies Chapter 2. Chapter 3.
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More than Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology Liv Nilsson Stutz A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm Fredrik Fahlander Excavating the Kings’ Bones: The Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome Regina Gee
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Burials Chapter 6.
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Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11.
Cremations, Conjecture and Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland Paul R J Duffy and Gavin MacGregor Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) Ulla Rajala Reuse in Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground – Examples of Collective Memory Anna Wickholm Life and Death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula Ana M. S. Bettencourt Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional Contacts Malin Aasbøe The Use of Ochre in Stone Age Burials of the East Baltic Ilga Zagorska
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Beliefs Chapter 12.
Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16.
“Death Myths”: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway Siv Kristoffersen and Terje Oestigaard Reproduction and Relocation of Death in Iron Age Scandinavia Ter