Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, gabriel Cooney

Gebundenes Buch

Transformation by Fire

The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context

Herausgeber: Kuijt, Ian; Cooney, Gabriel; Quinn, Colin P

Beschreibung

Examines cremation by documenting the material signatures of cremation events and processes, as well as its transformative impact on social relations and concepts of the body.

Autor

Ian Kuijt is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. His interests include mortuary analysis, the forager–farmer transition, the ancient Near East, and Irish historical archaeology. Colin P. Quinn is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he works at the Museum of Anthropology. His research interests include a global perspective on increasing social complexity and material culture use; his current research focuses on monitoring long-term dynamics in the interaction of mortuary practices, settlement patterns, and metal procurement in Bronze Age Transylvania. Gabriel Cooney is the professor of Celtic archaeology in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests focus on Ireland in the wider European context and include early farming societies, particularly prehistoric use of stone and mortuary practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780816531141
• ISBN-10: 0816531145
• Artikelnr.: 40787935