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Auteur(s) : Harding, Dennis William (1940-....)
Titre(s) : Death and burial in Iron Age Britain [Texte imprimé] / D. W. Harding
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University press, 2016
Description matérielle : xiv, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index
Archaeologists have long acknowledged the absence of a regular and recurrent burial
rite in the British Iron Age, and have looked to rites such as cremation and scattering
of remains to explain the minimal impact of funerary practices on the archaeological
record. Pit-burials or the deposit of disarticulated bones in settlements have been
dismissed as casual disposal or the remains of social outcasts. In Death and Burial
in Iron Age Britain, Harding examines the deposition of human and animal remains from
the period - from whole skeletons to disarticulated fragments - and challenges the
assumption that there should have been any regular form of cemetery in prehistory,
arguing that the dead were more commonly integrated into settlements of the living
than segregated into dedicated cemeteries. Even where cemeteries are known, they may
yet represent no more than a minority of the total population, so that other forms
of disposal must still have been practised. A further example of this can be found
in hillforts which, in addition to domestic and agricultural settlements, evidently
played an important role in funerary ritual, as secure community centres where excarnation
and display of the dead may have made them a potent symbol of identity. The volume
evaluates the evidence for violent death, sacrifice, and cannibalism, as well as age
and gender distinctions, and associations with animal burials, and reveals that 'formal'
cemetery burial or cremation was for most regions a minority practice in Britain until
the eve of the Roman conquest
Sujet(s) : Mort -- Grande-Bretagne -- Jusqu'à 1500
Inhumation -- Grande-Bretagne -- Jusqu'à 1500
Âge du fer -- Grande-Bretagne
Antiquités -- Grande-Bretagne
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199687565. - ISBN 0199687560
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb444968425
Notice n° :
FRBNF44496842
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