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Oxbow Books - Studies in Funerary Archaeology

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	Studies in Funerary Archaeology 5 Living through the dead: Burial and commemoration in the Classical world edited by Maureen Carroll and Jane Rempel with a preface by John Drinkwater This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or ... Paperback. Price US$60.00
	Studies in Funerary Archaeology 4 Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c. 650-1100 AD edited by Jo Buckberry and Annia Cherryson Traditionally, the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting. The last decade has seen the publication of many important cemeteries and synthetic works demonstrating that such a simplistic view of later Anglo-Saxon burial is no longer tenable. The reality is rather more complex, with ... Hardback. Price US$60.00
	Studies in Funerary Archaeology 3 The Archaeology of the Dead: Lectures in Archaeothanatology by Henri Duday, translated by Anna Maria Cipriani and revised by John Pearce Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period. Translated into English by Anna Maria Cipriani and John ... Paperback. Price US$60.00
	Studies in Funerary Archaeology 2 Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record edited by Eileen M Murphy This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries. It has long been recognised by archaeologists that certain individuals in a variety of archaeological cultures from diverse periods and locations have been accorded differential treatment in burial relative to other members of their society. These ... Paperback. Price US$60.00
	Studies in Funerary Archaeology 1 The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains edited by Rebecca Gowland and Christopher Knüsel Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with ... Paperback. Price US$70.00