Death and the body in Bronze age Europe from inhumation to cremation
This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sørenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to in...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2023
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction: changing practices and perception of the body
- A brief history of urns, urnfields and burials in the Urnfield culture
- Theoretical framework
- The Bronze age: setting the scene
- The changing Bronze Age body -introduction of case studies
- The treatment of the body: compatibility and divergence
- The construction of graves: coherence and variations
- After the burial: prolonged engagement with the body
- Conclusions: on the nature of change in burial practices
- Bibliography
- Index