This collection brings together leading experts and new voices in the study of death in the human past. The book explores the rich range of archaeological evidence shedding light on the use of cremation from prehistory to the present day.
This collection brings together leading experts and new voices in the study of death in the human past. The book explores the rich range of archaeological evidence shedding light on the use of cremation from prehistory to the present day.
Jessica Cerezo-Román is a College Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. She also wroks as a bioarchaeologist consultant for the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro INAH Sonora, Mexico. She completed her PhD at The University of Arizona in 2014. Anna Wessman is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and archaeologist and educator at the Espoo City Museum. Her PhD, entitled Death, Destruction and Commemoration which traced ritual activities in Finnish Late Iron Age cemeteries (AD 550-1150), was completed at the University of Helsinki in 2010. Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester. His research interests focus on medieval, post-medieval and contemporary mortuary archaeology, archaeologies of memory, and the history of archaeology. Howard has published over 80 book chapters and journal articles as well as edited books, including most recently Archaeologists and the Dead (OUP, 2016). He is author of the monograph Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain (CUP, 2006).
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* 1: Howard Williams, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, and Anna Wessman: Introduction: Archaeologies of Cremation * Part 1: Relational Fiery Technologies * 2: Amy Gray Jones: Cremation and the Use of Fire in Mesolithic Mortuary Practices in North-West Europe * 3: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Rediscovering the Body: Cremation and Inhumation in Early Iron Age Central Europe * 4: Ruth Nugent: Two of a Kind: Conceptual Similarities between Cremation and Inhumation in Early Anglo-Saxon England * 5: Lynne Goldstein: Fiery Technology' and Transformative Placemaking: A Contextual Examination of a 'Crematory' at the Aztalan Site in Wisconsin * 6: Douglas H. Ubelaker: Interpretation of Burned Human Remains: Lessons from Modern Forensic Case * Part 2: Transforming and Commemorating with Cremation * 7: Gabriel Cooney: Pathways for the Dead in the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Ireland * 8: Anna Röst: Building by Stone and Bone: Handling Cremated Remains in Late Bronze Age Sweden * 9: Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Koen Deforce, Denis Henrotay and Wim Van Neer: From Life to Death: Dynamics of Personhood in Gallo-Roman Funeral Customs, Luxemburg Province, Belgium * 10: Anna Wessman and Howard Williams: Building for the Cremated Dead: Ephemeral and Cumulative Constructions * Part 3: Space and Time in Cremating Societies * 11: Jarkko Saipio: The Emergence of Cremations in Eastern Fennoscandia: Changing Uses of Fire in Ritual Contexts * 12: Lise Harvig: Land of the Cremated Dead: On Cremation Practices in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Scandinavia * 13: Kirsty E. Squires: Come Rain or Shine? The Social Implications of Seasonality and Weather on the Cremation Rite in Early Anglo-Saxon England * 14: Howard Williams and Anna Wessman: The Contemporary Archaeology of Urban Cremation
* 1: Howard Williams, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, and Anna Wessman: Introduction: Archaeologies of Cremation * Part 1: Relational Fiery Technologies * 2: Amy Gray Jones: Cremation and the Use of Fire in Mesolithic Mortuary Practices in North-West Europe * 3: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Rediscovering the Body: Cremation and Inhumation in Early Iron Age Central Europe * 4: Ruth Nugent: Two of a Kind: Conceptual Similarities between Cremation and Inhumation in Early Anglo-Saxon England * 5: Lynne Goldstein: Fiery Technology' and Transformative Placemaking: A Contextual Examination of a 'Crematory' at the Aztalan Site in Wisconsin * 6: Douglas H. Ubelaker: Interpretation of Burned Human Remains: Lessons from Modern Forensic Case * Part 2: Transforming and Commemorating with Cremation * 7: Gabriel Cooney: Pathways for the Dead in the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Ireland * 8: Anna Röst: Building by Stone and Bone: Handling Cremated Remains in Late Bronze Age Sweden * 9: Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Koen Deforce, Denis Henrotay and Wim Van Neer: From Life to Death: Dynamics of Personhood in Gallo-Roman Funeral Customs, Luxemburg Province, Belgium * 10: Anna Wessman and Howard Williams: Building for the Cremated Dead: Ephemeral and Cumulative Constructions * Part 3: Space and Time in Cremating Societies * 11: Jarkko Saipio: The Emergence of Cremations in Eastern Fennoscandia: Changing Uses of Fire in Ritual Contexts * 12: Lise Harvig: Land of the Cremated Dead: On Cremation Practices in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Scandinavia * 13: Kirsty E. Squires: Come Rain or Shine? The Social Implications of Seasonality and Weather on the Cremation Rite in Early Anglo-Saxon England * 14: Howard Williams and Anna Wessman: The Contemporary Archaeology of Urban Cremation
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