Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright info -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Foreword -- List of contributors -- Neolithic and the sacred fire -- Burned bones from the Late Neolithic Hamangia cemetery at Cernavodă, Romania -- The times of their death -- question of contemporaneity in burials from a Late Neolithic settlement in Polgár -- Csőszhalom (NE Hungary) -- A ditch in time -- Landscape of the living and landscape of the dead -- Early Iron Age burials at Gelmar (Hunedoara County, Romania) -- Mors immatura -- The critical years of life: Censorinus on the right time of death
Osteoarchaeological study of cremation burials from the Roman period necropolis of Zadar: taphonomy, demography and pathology -- Meeting a medieval community of Bizere Monastery -- Disappearance of grave goods: changes in burial practices in 14th century Ivanec, Croatia -- Can the position of the forearms serve as a dating determinant in medieval and early modern cemeteries on the territory of the northern Croatia? -- Coin finds at Crkvari -- Saint Lawrence Church site (northern Croatia) as terminus ante quem non for funerary features
Summary
Papers focus on two central topics regarding past funerary behaviour in Central and South-Eastern Europe: cremation, and cause and time of death. Six studies relate to prehistory, from the Neolithic to Iron Age. Three more papers focus on the Roman Age and the other four are dedicated to the Medieval period
