Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe: From Inhumation to Cremation

ISBN-13: 9781009247399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 350 str.

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Opis

The book explains how change in burial practices take place by focussing on how new practices are processed by local communities.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: changing practices and perception of the body; 2. A brief history of urns, urnfields and burials in the Urnfield Culture; 3. Theoretical framework; 4. The Bronze Age: setting the scene; 5. The changing Bronze Age body – introduction of case studies; 6. The treatment of the body: compatibility and divergence; 7. The construction of graves: coherence and variations; 8. After the burial: prolonged engagement with the body; 9. Conclusions: on the nature of change in burial practices.