Death as a process / edited by John Pearce and Jake Weekes.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.
  • ©2017
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Series
Studies in funerary archaeology ; 12
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9781785703249 ((epub))
  • 1785703242
  • 9781785703256 ((mobi))
  • 1785703250
  • 9781785703263 ((pdf))
  • 1785703269
LCCN
2017016253
OCLC
981508915
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