Death as a process

Death as a process [Texte imprimé] / edited by John Pearce and Jake Weekes - Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2017 - 1 vol. (300 p.) ; 24 cm - Studies in funerary archaeology ; 12 .

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Introduction: death as a process in Roman funerary archaeology / John Pearce -- Space, object, and process in the Koutsongila Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai, Greece / Joseph L. Rife and Melissa Morison -- Archaeology and funerary cult: the stratigraphy of soils in the cemeteries of Emilia Romagna (Northern Italy) / Jacopo Ortalli -- Funerary archaeology at St Dunstan's Terrace, Canterbury / Jake Weekes -- Buried Batavians: mortuary rituals of a rural frontier community / Joris Aarts and Stijn Heeren -- They fought and died but were covered with Earth only years later: mass graves on the ancient battlefield of Kalkriese / Achim Rost and Susanne Wilbers-Rost -- Some recent work on Romano-British cemeteries / Paul Booth -- Funerary complexes from imperial Rome: a new approach to anthropological study using excavation and laboratory data / Paola Catalano, Carla Caldarini, Flavio De Angelis and Walter Pantano -- Animals in funerary practices: sacrifices, offerings and meals at Rome and in the provinces / Sébastien Lepetz -- How did it go? Putting the process back into cremation / Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Afterword: process and polysemy: an appreciation of a cremation burial / Jake Weekes

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