Death as a process / edited by John Pearce and Jake Weekes.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 12Publisher: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017Description: ix, 300 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781785703232 (pbk.)
- Death as a process : the archaeology of the Roman funeral
- 393/.930937 23
- DG103 .D43 2017
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Printed Books | British School at Rome | 106.3.P.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not For Loan | BSR17041469 |
Subtitle on cover: The archaeology of the Roman funeral.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: death as a process in Roman funerary archaeology / John Pearce -- Space, object, and process in the Koutsongila Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai, Greece / Joseph L. Rife and Melissa Morison -- Archaeology and funerary cult: the stratigraphy of soils in the cemeteries of Emilia Romagna (Northern Italy) / Jacopo Ortalli -- Funerary archaeology at St Dunstan's Terrace, Canterbury / Jake Weekes -- Buried Batavians: mortuary rituals of a rural frontier community / Joris Aarts and Stijn Heeren -- They fought and died but were covered with Earth only years later: mass graves on the ancient battlefield of Kalkriese / Achim Rost and Susanne Wilbers-Rost -- Some recent work on Romano-British cemeteries / Paul Booth -- Funerary complexes from imperial Rome: a new approach to anthropological study using excavation and laboratory data / Paola Catalano, Carla Caldarini, Flavio De Angelis and Walter Pantano -- Animals in funerary practices: sacrifices, offerings and meals at Rome and in the provinces / Sébastien Lepetz -- How did it go? Putting the process back into cremation / Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Afterword: process and polysemy: an appreciation of a cremation burial / Jake Weekes.
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