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Author:   John Pearce ,  Martin Millett ,  Manuela Struck
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.980kg
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9781842170342

ISBN 10:   1842170341
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Preface (M.Millet) vii Abstracts, Zusammenfassungen, Resumes ix List of Contributors xxiii THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MORTUARY RITUALS 1. Burial, society and context in the provincial Roman worls (J.Pearce) p.1 Introduction p.13 2. Ritual, sequence, and structure in Late Iron Age mortuary practices in north-west Europe (A.p. Fitxpatrick) p.15 3. Reconstructing funerary rituals: the evidence of ustrina and related archaeological structures (M.Polfer) p.30 4. Phoenix rising: aspects of cremation in Roman Britain (J. McKinley) p.38 5. Functional and conceptual archaeobotanical data from Roman cremations (A. Kreuz) p.45 6. Pottery assemblages in Gallo-Roman cemteries (M. Tuffreau-Libre) p.52 BURIAL AND SOCIAL STATUS Introduction p.61 7.Mors immatura in he Roman world - a mirror of society and tradition (S. Martin-Kilcher) p.63 8. Portrait figures on sephulchral altars of Roman liberti: evidence of Romanization or assimilation of attributes characterizing higher social strata? (D. Dexheimer) p.78 9. High status burials in roman Britain (1st-3rd centuries AD) - potential of interpretation (M. Struck) p. 85 10. Funerary rites in Verulamium during the early Roman period (R. Niblett) p.97 11. Biology and burial practices from the end of the first century AD to the beginning of the fifth century AD: the rurla necropolis of Chantambre (essonne, France) (P. Murail and L. Girard) p.105 12. A Roman cemetery in the eastern Civitas Treverorum. Preliminary report on the excavations in Wadern-Oberlosten in Northwest Saarland (Germany) (A. Abegg-Wigg) p.112 13.An elite funerary enclosure in the centre of the villa of Biberist-Spitalhof (Switzerland) - a case study (C. Schucany) p.118 THE DEAD IN THE LANDSCAPE Introduction p.125 14. Putting the dead in their place: burial location in Roman Britain (S. Esmonde Cleary) p.127 15. Continuity of prehistoric burial sites in the Roman landscape of Sandy Flanders (F. Vermeulen and J. Bourgeois) p. 143 16. The living and the dead: approches to landscape around Lyons (L. Tranoy) p.162 17. Burial in Asia Minor during the Imperial period, with particular reference to Cilicia and Cappadocia (M. Spanu) p.169 BURIAL AND ETHNICITY Introduction p.179 18. Early Roman graves in Southern Bavaria: a review (P. Fasold) p. 181 19. Early Roman graves in Cologne (M. Riedel) p. 192 20. Connection between funerary rites and ethnic groups in the cemeteries of north-eastern Pannonia (J. Topal) p.197 21. Romanization and ethnic elements in burial practice in the southern part of Pannonia Inferior and Moesia Superior) A. Jovanovic) p.204 SOCIETY, RELIGION AND BURIAL IN LATE ROMAN BRITAIN AND ITALY Introduction p.215 22. Putting Late Roman burial practice (from Britain) in context (L. Quensel-von-Kalben) 23. Gender imbalances in Romano-British cemetery populations: a re-evaluation of the evidence (C. Davison) p.231 24. Glass vessels as grave goods and grave ornaments in the catacombs of Rome (P. De Santis) p.238 25. Clothing in burial practice in Italy in the early Christian period (R. Martorelli) p. 244 26. Amulet and grave in Late Antiquity: some examples from Roman cemeteries (D. Nuzzo) p.249 27. Funerary equipment from the circiforme basilica by the Via Ardeatina, Rome (P. del Moro) p.256 28. Intra-mural burials at Rome between the 5th and 7th centuries AD (R, Meneghini and R. Santangeli Valenzani) p. 263 Afterword (R.Reece) p.270

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Taken as a whole, this volume highlights how mortuary archaeology can inform and stimulate current debates on Roman society and the empire-wide process of Romanization. It illustrates the richness and diversity of current studies in Roman mortuary archaeology, while the individual case studies demonstrate that cemetery sites are important nodes of practice and thought in the Roman world.' -- Mortality 7 Mortality 7 As one of the editors of the collection stresses, Roman modes of burial have had relatively scant attention, unless linked to particular historical issues, such as the spread of Christianity. The theoretical possibilities of the so-called archaeology of death have been tried frequently enough upon Greek and Etruscan material: but Rome is no less rich in data. There are several studies included here of mortuary practices in Rome and Italy in later antiquity, but principal consideration is given to the north-west provinces. How funerary rituals can be reconstructed; what burials tell us about social status; how landscapes of commemoration were shaped, and to what extent localized traditions might be Romanized - these are the subdivisions of a volume which ... carries all the signs of current archaeological investigation. Beyond the black-dotted plans and diagrams, what emerges is not so much a prospect of redefining the generalities of some supposedly Roman way of death, but rather the impertinence of such a category. Thanks to the microscopic techniques of examining carbonised plant remains (archaeobotany) and bodily traces (palaeopathology), every excavated grave is redeemed by its own story. To paraphrase Rupert Brooke - we shall not hear their trentals, nor eat their arval bread. But to ponder the number of newly-born infants buried in jars at a Gallo-Roman cemetery in the forest of Fontainebleau, and the assortment of grave goods left with the adults there - old shoes, coarse potshards, handfuls of nails - is insight hinged with the pathos of human fellowship.' -- Greece and Rome Greece and Rome fascinating and informative' -- American Journal Of Archaeology American Journal Of Archaeology

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Professor Martin Millett is Emeritus Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

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