Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe (eBook, PDF)

From Inhumation to Cremation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009247405
• Artikelnr.: 70914041

Autorenporträt

Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She has made important contributions to the scholarship on the European Bronze in a range of topics, including dress, creativity, the construction of identities, and the role of 'things.'

Inhaltsangabe

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.