Deviant burial in the archaeological record / edited by Eileen M. Murphy.

Date:
[2008], ©2008
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Description

This volume contains 12 papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries.

Publication/Creation

Oxford, UK : Oxbow Books, ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed by] David Brown Book Co., [2008], ©2008.

Physical description

xviii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Notes

Papers originally presented at a session held at the 11th annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists that took place in Cork, Ireland, Sept., 2005.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Unusual burials and necrophobia : an insight into the burial archaeology of fear / Anastasia Tsaliki -- What actually is a "deviant burial?" : comparing German-language and Anglophone research on deviant burials / Edeltraud Aspöck -- Odd one out? : earlier Neolithic deposition of human remains in caves and rock shelters in the Yorkshire dales / Stephany Leach -- The value of palaeoteratology and forensic pathology for the understanding of atypical burials : two Mediterranean examples from the field / Philippe Charlier -- Ritual inhumations and "deposits" of children among the Geto-Dacians / Valerin Sîrbu -- Aspects of deviant burial in Roman Britain / Alison Taylor -- Normal, deviant,and atypical : burial variation in Late Saxon Wessex, c. AD 700-1100 / Annia Kristina Cherryson -- Charcoal burial : a minority burial rite in early medieval Europe / James Holloway -- Off with their heads : the Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, East Yorkshire / Jo Buckberry -- Unusual life, unusual death, and the fate of the corpse : a case study from dynastic Europe / Estella Weiss-Krejci -- The origins of cilliní in Ireland / Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy -- Grief, grievance, and grandeur : an eighteenth-century mausoleum in Mainham, Co. Kildare / Mark Gordon.

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  • 9781842173381
  • 1842173383