Archaeology: The Materiality of Death (2008)

The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs Fredrik Fahlander and Terje Oestigaard (eds.) 2008 Death is material by its very nature. Defining death is difficult since it often involves ideas of a soul or a spiritual entity which is believed to live on in various metaphysical realms. However, the universal aspect which characterises death is the corpse. The absence of life is physical, material and real; it is a dead body. It is this primary materiality of death which triggers human responses to the inevitable, and all funerals, in one way or another, solve the problem of the decaying corpse. The contributors to this book discuss and explore alternative ways of dealing with burials. This is a collection of 16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006, exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death. Contents: The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard More than Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology Liv Nilsson Stutz A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm Fredrik Fahlander Excavating the Kings’ Bones: The Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tomb side Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome Regina Gee Cremations, Conjecture and Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland Paul R J Duffy & Gavin MacGregor Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) Ulla Rajala Reuse in Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground – Examples of Collective Memory Anna Wickholm Life and Death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula Ana M. S. Bettencourt Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional Contacts Malin Aasbøe The Use of Ochre in Stone Age Burials of the East Baltic Ilga Zagorska “Death Myths”: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway Siv Kristoffersen & Terje Oestigaard Reproduction and Relocation of Death in Iron Age Scandinavia Terje Gansum A Road for the Viking’s Soul Åke Johansson A Road to the Other Side Camilla Grön Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in Uppland, Central Sweden Christina Lindgren BAR International Series 1768 2008 ISBN 9781407302577 160 pages Archaeology: Seedare Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs

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tfotis (2009-02-25)

thank you:) Do you have more archaeological staff?