Neolithic cave burials : agency, structure and environment
Rick Peterson
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Omfang | xiii, 256 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Har register. - This is the first book-length treatment of Neolithic burial in Britain to focus primarily on cave evidence. Interpreting human remains from forty-eight sites, it makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates around burial practices during the period. The book provides a contextual archaeology of the burials, treating them as important evidence for the study of Neolithic mortuary practice generally. Beginning with an assessment of the evidence from the karst regions of Europe, it goes on to provide an up-to-date critical review of the archaeology of Neolithic funerary practice, using he concept of the 'intermediary period' in multi-stage burials to integrate archaeological evidence, cave sedimentology and taphonomy. Neolithic cave environments and the dead bodies within them would have been perceived as active subjects with similar kinds of agency to the living. The book demonstrates that cave burial was one of the earliest elements of the British Neolithic, and that Early Neolithic practice was highly varied, with many similarities to other burial rites. By the Middle Neolithic, however, a funerary practice specific to caves had developed
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| ISBN | 978-1-5261-1886-8
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