Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology

Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology

Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour

Knuesel, Christopher J.; Schotsmans, Eline M. J.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2022

724

Dura

Inglês

9781138492424

15 a 20 dias

Introduction: Archaeothanatology, funerary archaeology and bioarchaeology: perspectives on the long view of death and the dead

Christopher J. Knuesel and Eline M.J. Schotsmans

Part I: Archaeothanatology - methodological guidelines

1. Methodological guidelines for archaeothanatological practice

Frederique Blaizot

2. A tale of two worlds: Terminologies in archaeothanatology

Bruno Boulestin

3. Words between two worlds: Collective graves and related issues in burial terminology

Bruno Boulestin and Patrice Courtaud

4. Secondary cremation burials of past populations: Some methodological procedures for excavation, bone fragment identification and sex determination

Germaine Depierre

5. The accompanying dead

Bruno Boulestin

6. Denied funeral rites: The contribution of the archaeothanatological approach

Aurore Schmitt

Part II: Period-specific applications

7. Early primary burials: Evidence from Southwestern Asia

Anne-marie Tillier

8. The earliest European burials

Bruno Maureille

9. Beyond the formal analysis of funerary practices? Archaeothanatology as a reflexive tool for considering the role of the dead amongst the living: A Natufian case study

Fanny Bocquentin

10. What can archaeothanatology add? A case study of new knowledge and theoretical implications in the re-study of Mesolithic burials in Sweden and Denmark

Liv Nilsson Stutz

11. Neolithic burials of infants and children

Melie Le Roy and Stephane Rottier

12. Defining collective burials: Three case studies

Aurore Schmitt

13. Different burial types but common practice: The case of the funerary complex at Barbuise and La Saulsotte (France) at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age

Stephane Rottier

14. Deathways of the Durotriges: Reconstructing identity through archaeothanatology in later Iron Age southern Britain

Karina Gerdau-Radonic, Janne Sperrevik, Martin Smith, Paul Cheetham, and Miles Russell

15. The Roman cemetery of Porta Nocera at Pompeii: The contribution of osteological re-associations to the study of secondary cremation burials

Henri Duday

16. Reopening graves for the removal of objects and bones: Cultural practices and looting

Edeltraud Aspoeck, Karina Gerdau-Radonic and Astrid Noterman

17. Cluniac funerary practices

Eleanor Williams

18. 'Bring out your dead': Funerary and public health practices in times of epidemic disease

Dominique Castex and Sacha Kacki

19. Jewish funerary practices in Medieval Europe

Philippe Blanchard

20. Islamic burials: Muslim graves and graves of Muslims

Yves Gleize

21. Recognising a slave cemetery: An example from colonial-period Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles

Patrice Courtaud and Thomas Romon

Part III: Archaeothanatology of associated remains

22. Archaeothanatological approaches to associated remains in funerary contexts in Europe: An overview

Isabelle Cartron and Aurelie Zemour

23. An archaeothanatological approach to the identification of late Anglo-Saxon burials in wooden containers

Emma C. Green

24. Ceramic studies in funerary contexts from Roman Gaul

Christine Bonnet

25. Animal remains in burials

Patrice Meniel

26. The walking dead - life after death: archaeoentomological evidence in a Roman catacomb: (Saints Marcellinus and Peter, central area, 1st-3rd century AD)

Jean-Bernard Huchet and Dominique Castex

Part IV: Applied sciences, experiments and legal considerations

27. From flesh to bone: building bridges between taphonomy, archaeothanatology and forensic science for a better understanding of mortuary practices

Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Patrice Georges-Zimmerman, Maiken Ueland, and Boyd B. Dent

28. Exploring the use of actualistic forensic taphonomy in the study of (forensic) archaeological human burials: An actualistic experimental research programme at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS), San Marcos, Texas

Hayley L. Mickleburgh, Daniel J. Wescott, Sarah Gluschitz, and M. Victor Klinkenberg

29. An experimental approach to the interpretation of prehistoric cremation and cremation burials

Mogens B. Henriksen

30. The taphonomic and archaeothanatological potentials of diagenetic alterations of archaeological bone

Thomas J. Booth, David Broenniman, Richard Madgwick, and Cordula Portmann

31. 3D models as useful tools in archaeothanatology

Geraldine Sachau-Carcel

32. Use of archaeothanatology in preventive (salvage/rescue) archaeology and field research archaeology

Mark Guillon

33. Managing and reburying ancient human remains in France: From legal and ethical concerns to field practices

Gaelle Clavandier

Part V: Lexicon of archaeothanatological terms

34. Lexicon of terms used in archaeothanatology: A work still in the process of becoming

Christopher J. Knuesel, Karina Gerdau-Radonic, and Eline M.J. Schotsmans
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Mortuary Behaviour;Funerary Practices;Human Remains;Funerary Treatment;Ossa Coxae;Funerary Archaeology;Collective Burial;Skeletal Elements;Institut National De Recherches;Mortuary Practices;Skeletal Remains;Multiple Burials;Grave Goods;Archaeological Contexts;Primary Burials;Funerary Spaces;Temporo Mandibular Joints;Burial Pit;Funerary Deposit;Taphonomic Analysis;Bone Displacement;Cremation Burials;Funerary Context;Sacro Iliac Joints;9th Century Ad