Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains e-bog
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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 th...
E-bog
223,05 DKK
Forlag
Oxbow Books
Udgivet
6 april 2009
Længde
320 sider
Genrer
HDP
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781782972709
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 the anthropology of the deceased.