ISBN:
0-521-23775-0
,
978-0-521-23775-8
Language:
English
Pages:
159 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
New Directions in Archaeology
DDC:
393/.1/0901
Keywords:
Prähistorie, Eu Prähistorie, NA
;
Prähistorie, Am
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Kulturvergleich
;
Bestattung
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Ritual und Zeremonie
;
Tod
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Approaches to the archaeology of death -- The search for rank in prehistoric burials -- Social configurations and the archaeological study of mortuary practices: a case study -- One-dimensional archaeology and multi-dimensional people: spatial organisation and mortuary analysis -- The emergence of formal disposal areas and the 'problem' of megalithic tombs in prehistoric Europe -- Dialogues with death -- 'Various styles of urn' - cemeteries and settlement in southern England -- Burial, succession and early state formation in Denmark -- Mortuary practices, palaeodemography and palaeopathology: a case study from the Koster site (Illinois) -- Mortality, age structure and status in the interpretation of stress indicators in prehistoric skeletons -- Bibliography -- Index
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