The Materiality of Death

Bodies, burials, beliefs





Libro editado por Fredrik Fahlander y Terje Oestigaard (2008)


Chapter 1. The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard

Bodies
Chapter 2. More than Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology
Liv Nilsson Stutz
Chapter 3. A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm
Fredrik Fahlander
Chapter 4. Excavating the Kings’ Bones: The Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today
Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard
Chapter 5. From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome
Regina Gee

Burials
Chapter 6. Cremations, Conjecture and Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland
Paul R J Duffy and Gavin MacGregor
Chapter 7. Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy)
Ulla Rajala
Chapter 8. Reuse in Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground – Examples of Collective Memory
Anna Wickholm
Chapter 9. Life and Death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula
Ana M. S. Bettencourt
Chapter 10. Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional Contacts
Malin Aasbøe
Chapter 11. The Use of Ochre in Stone Age Burials of the East Baltic
Ilga Zagorska

Beliefs
Chapter 12. “Death Myths”: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway
Siv Kristoffersen and Terje Oestigaard
Chapter 13. Reproduction and Relocation of Death in Iron Age Scandinavia
Terje Gansum
Chapter 14. A Road for the Viking’s Soul
Åke Johansson
Chapter 15. A Road to the Other Side
Camilla Grön
Chapter 16. Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in Uppland, Central Sweden.
Christina Lindgren