The Archaeology of Death and Burial,9780890969267

The Archaeology of Death and Burial

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ISBN13: 9780890969267
ISBN10: 0890969264
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Mike Parker Pearson is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
v
Acknowledgments vi
Learning From the Dead
1(20)
The funeral of a Viking
1(2)
Human remains: the archaeology of death or the archaeology of life?
3(2)
Inhumation
5(1)
Cremation
6(1)
Grave goods
7(4)
Cemetery organization
11(6)
Human sacrifice
17(3)
Conclusion
20(1)
From Now to Then: Ethnoarchaeology and Analogy
21(24)
The social anthropology of death
21(6)
Cross-cultural generalizations and the New Archaeology's search for middle range theory
27(5)
Funerary practices: agency, power and ideology
32(2)
Ethnoarchaeology and the reconsideration of analogy
34(2)
Tandroy funerary practices and the rise of monumentality
36(4)
The ethnoarchaeology of us: funerary practices in Britain and the US
40(4)
Conclusion
44(1)
Reading the Body
45(27)
Distancing death in recent and contemporary Britain
47(2)
Destroying the body
49(3)
Eating the body
52(2)
Laying out and adorning the body
54(1)
The absent and anonymous body
55(1)
Keeping the body
56(1)
Pharaohs of the New Kingdom and the corpse as cosmos
56(3)
Saints' bones: human relics as magical substance
59(2)
The frozen tombs of Pazyrk: the body's skin as sacred boundary
61(6)
Bog bodies: human sacrifices or social outcasts?
67(4)
Conclusion
71(1)
Status, Rank and Power
72(23)
Social evolutionary theory
72(1)
Mortuary variability and social organization
73(2)
New Archaeology case studies of status
75(3)
Grave goods and status
78(2)
Diet, health and status
80(3)
Rethinking grave goods and status
83(3)
Relationships between rank and power
86(1)
Moundville: funerary rituals of a prehistoric `chiefdom'
87(7)
Conclusion
94(1)
Gender and Kinship
95(29)
The osteological identification of sex
95(1)
Feminist theory and the rise of a `gendered' archaeology
96(5)
Gender identity and contextual meanings
101(1)
Little perishers: the archaeology of children
102(2)
Women, men and children in Danish prehistory
104(5)
Dress, gender and kinship
109(1)
Kinship and the New Archaeology
110(4)
Stratigraphic sequences and kinship
114(2)
Integrating funerary and biological approaches
116(8)
Placing the Dead
124(18)
Separating the dead from the living
124(7)
Sacred places of the dead
131(1)
Tombs and territories
132(4)
Descent groups and territoriality
136(3)
A tomb with a view
139(2)
Conclusion
141(1)
The Human Experience of Death
142(29)
Death and time
142(3)
Funerary rites and the origins of humanity
145(2)
Burials of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
147(6)
The Lower Palaeolithic: formal disposal and cannibalism?
153(3)
The origins of monumentality
156(1)
The construction of ancestorhood
157(4)
From plastered skulls to figurines: the mother-goddess myth rejected
161(3)
The quest for immortality
164(4)
The rise of the world religions
168(2)
The rise of secular beliefs
170(1)
The Politics of the Dead
171(22)
Native Americans and archaeologists
173(3)
Aboriginals and atrocities in Australia
176(1)
The politics of bones around the world
177(3)
Legal requirements and problem cases in Britain
180(3)
Archaeology and the public in Britain
183(2)
Codes of ethics for the treatment of human remains
185(3)
Plundering and pillaging the dead-the problem of looting
188(2)
The archaeology of twentieth-century atrocities
190(1)
Who owns the dead?
191(2)
Epilogue: Death and Memory
193(5)
Ritual
194(1)
Architecture, death and monuments
195(2)
Conclusion
197(1)
APPENDIX EXCAVATING HUMAN REMAINS 198(7)
Pre-excavation
198(1)
Excavating inhumations
199(2)
Excavating cremations
201(1)
Recording
202(1)
Lifting and temporary storage
202(2)
Post-excavation
204(1)
Notes 205(12)
Bibliography 217(27)
Index 244

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