Author: Edeltraud Aspöck
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789254450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revealed evidence of the original funerary deposit. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters. The primary focus of the volume is on cases of unexpected interference with individual graves soon after burial: re-encounters with human remains not anticipated by those who performed the funerary rites and constructed the tombs. However, a first step is always to distinguish these from natural and accidental processes, and methodological approaches are a major theme of discussion. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics. The introduction presents many of the methodological issues which recur throughout the contributions, as this is a developing area with new approaches being applied to analyze post-depositional processes in graves.
Grave Disturbances
Author: Edeltraud Aspöck
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789254450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revealed evidence of the original funerary deposit. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters. The primary focus of the volume is on cases of unexpected interference with individual graves soon after burial: re-encounters with human remains not anticipated by those who performed the funerary rites and constructed the tombs. However, a first step is always to distinguish these from natural and accidental processes, and methodological approaches are a major theme of discussion. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics. The introduction presents many of the methodological issues which recur throughout the contributions, as this is a developing area with new approaches being applied to analyze post-depositional processes in graves.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789254450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revealed evidence of the original funerary deposit. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters. The primary focus of the volume is on cases of unexpected interference with individual graves soon after burial: re-encounters with human remains not anticipated by those who performed the funerary rites and constructed the tombs. However, a first step is always to distinguish these from natural and accidental processes, and methodological approaches are a major theme of discussion. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics. The introduction presents many of the methodological issues which recur throughout the contributions, as this is a developing area with new approaches being applied to analyze post-depositional processes in graves.
Feeding and the Nutritional Disorders in Infancy and Childhood
Author: Julius Hays Hess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Feeding and the Nutritional Disorders in Infancy and Childhood
Author: Julius H. Hess
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Surgery, Its Principles and Practice: Vascular; gynecology; anesthesia; X-rays; operative & plastic; infections; leagl pathologic relations; hospital organization
Author: William Williams Keen
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Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
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Surgery
Author: William Williams Keen
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Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
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Publisher:
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Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
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Historic Preservation Administration Act of 1989 and the National Historic Preservation Policy Act of 1989
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Hysteria Or Pithiatism, and Reflex Nervous Disorders in the Neurology of War
Author: Joseph Babinski
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Category : Hysteria
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Hysteria
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Principles of medical pathology
Author: Henri Roger
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Introduction to the Study of Medicine
Author: Henri Roger
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Category : Clinical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Clinical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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