Marie Louise Stig Sorensen (University of Cambridge), Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe

From Inhumation to Cremation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers case-based analyses of the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation in temperate Bronze Age Europe. In turn it questions the role of the familiar as a conservative force. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of European prehistory and archaeology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 183mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781009247399
• ISBN-10: 1009247395
• Artikelnr.: 64261510

Autorenporträt

Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She has made important contributions to the scholarship on the European Bronze in a range of topics, including dress, creativity, the construction of identities, and the role of 'things.'

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: changing practices and perception of the body
2. A brief history of urns, urnfields and burials in the Urnfield Culture
3. Theoretical framework
4. The Bronze Age: setting the scene
5. The changing Bronze Age body ¿ introduction of case studies
6. The treatment of the body: compatibility and divergence
7. The construction of graves: coherence and variations
8. After the burial: prolonged engagement with the body
9. Conclusions: on the nature of change in burial practices.