The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe: Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World

ISBN-13: 9780367880590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 318 str.

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Opis

The ’archaeology of the body’ has recently emerged as one of the most promising new fields in archaeology, using a fresh approach to look at archaeological data from a different angle and interpreting society in a new way. This volume tracks the changing individual and social identities of early Iron Age people through body-related practices and im

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

Theoretical Framework

The Iron Age Setting

Funerary Practices and the Body

The Representation of the Body: Images and Imagined Worlds

The Image and the Object

The Hallstatt Body in Life and Death

Motif networks

Conclusion

List of sites included in the analysis

Bibliography

O autorze

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury received her PhD in prehistoric archaeology from the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2005 and subsequently worked as a researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Leicester (both UK). Her research within the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Tracing Networks’ centred on studying human representations, identities, and social relations in the late Bronze and Iron Age of central Europe. She currently investigates motherhood in prehistoric Europe at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria).