| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction Archaeologies of cremation / Howard Williams, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Anna Wessman -- Relational fiery technologies -- Cremation and the use of fire in Mesolithic mortuary practices in North-West Europe / Amy Gray Jones -- Rediscovering the body : cremation and inhumation in early Iron Age Central Europe / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury -- Two of a kind : conceptual similarities between cremation and inhumation in early Anglo-Saxon England / Ruth Nugent -- 'Fiery technology' and transformative placemaking : a contextual examination of a 'crematory' at the Aztalan Site in Wisconsin / Lynne Goldstein -- Interpretation of burned remains : lessons from modern forensic cases / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Transforming and commemorating with cremation -- Pathways for the dead in the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Ireland / Gabriel Cooney -- Building by stone and vone : handling cremated remains in Late Bronze Age Sweden / Anna Röst -- From life to death : dynamics of personhood in Gallo-Roman funerary customs, Luxemburg Province, Belgium / Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Koen Deforce, Denis Henrotay, Wim Van Neer -- Building for the cremated dead : ephemeral and cumulative constructions / Anna Wessman, Howard Williams -- Space and time in dremating societies -- The emergence of cremations in Eastern Fennoscandia : dhanging uses of fire in ritual contexts / Jarkko Saipio -- Land of the cremated dead : on cremation practices in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Scandinavia / Lise Harvig -- Come rain or shine? : the social implications of seasonality and weather on the cremation rite in Early Anglo-Saxon England / Kirsty E. Squires -- The dontemporary archaeology of urban cremation / Howard Williams, Anna Wessman |
| Summary |
The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the archaeological study of cremation has much to offer. Cremation is a fascinating and widespread theme and entry-point in the exploration of the variability of mortuary practices among past societies. Seeking to challenge simplistic narratives of cremation in the past and present, the studies in this volume seek to confront and explore the challenges of interpreting the variability of cremation by contending with complex networks of modern allusions and imaginings of cremations past and present and ongoing debates regarding how we identify and interpret cremation in the archaeological record. Using a series of original case studies, the book investigates the archaeological traces of cremation in a varied selection of prehistoric and historic contexts from the Mesolithic to the present in order to explore cremation from a practice-oriented and historically situated perspective -- Publisher |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2017 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Cremation -- History -- To 1500
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History -- To 1500
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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Cremation
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cerezo-Román, Jessica, editor
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Wessman, Anna, editor
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Williams, Howard, 1972- editor.
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European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting (18th : 2012 : Helsinki, Finland), associated with work.
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| ISBN |
9780191917141 |
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0191917141 |
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9780192519085 |
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0192519085 |
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