In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.
In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regio...
This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining recent and ongoing concerns in anthropology, it takes the study of mortuary archaeology to a new and significant level of interdisciplinary research. Drawing inspiration from ethnohistory, ethnography, bioarchaeology, and sociocultural anthropology, the authors focus on themes of gender, ancestorhood, ritual violence, individual agency, space and placement, and extended and secondary mortuary ceremonialism....
This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing dat...
The impressive geographical, temporal, and topical coverage makes this volume by far the best of its kind to appear in recent years. George R. Milner, Pennsylvania State University A kaleidoscopic collection of studies with fascinating insights into the myriad and bizarre ways that our species has treated its dead global coverage of human interactions with our dead, past and present an indispensable reference for all scholars interested in death and burial. Michael Parker Pearson, University of Sheffield
This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary,...
The impressive geographical, temporal, and topical coverage makes this volume by far the best of its kind to appear in recent years. George R. Mil...
The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities. Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Study of Human Remains focuses upon the contemporary practice of bioarchaeology in North American contexts, its accomplishments and challenges. Appendixes, a glossary and 150 page bibliography make the volume extremely useful...
The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically ...
