Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis

In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.

List of contents

I. Introduction.- 1 - On Mortuary Analysis-with Special Reference to the Saxe-Binford Research Program.- II. Landscapes and Mortuary Sites.- 2 - Ten Years After-Megaliths, Mortuary Practices, and the Territorial Model.- 3 - Mortuary Behavior, Labor Organization, and Social Rank.- 4 - Diachronic Regional Social Dynamics: Mortuary Sites in the Illinois Valley/American Bottom Region.- 5 - Landscapes and Mortuary Practices: A Case for Regional Perspectives.- III. Identities and Boundaries.- 6 - Mortuary Custom in the Bronze Age of Southeastern Hungary: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives.- 7 - Kingdom and Community in Early Anglo-Saxon Eastern England.- 8 - Regional Cults and Ethnic Boundaries in "Southern Hopewell".- IV. Population Analysis.- 9 - Regional Approaches to the Investigation of Past Human Biocultural Structure.- 10 - An Osteological Perspective on Prehistoric Warfare.- V. Concluding Remarks.- 11 - Regional Perspectives on Mortuary Analysis.- Series Publications.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lan Anderson Beck (Editor), Lane Anderson Beck (Editor), Lane Anderson Beck (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2013
• EAN: 9781489913128
• ISBN: 978-1-4899-1312-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 16 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 464 g
• Illustrations: XX, 280 p.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology; Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity