Overview

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.

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Author:   Lane Anderson Beck
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1995 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.330kg
ISBN:  

9780306449314

ISBN 10:   0306449315
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   28 February 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table 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.

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