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The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs

Fredrik Fahlander and Terje Oestigaard (eds.)

2008

Death is material by its very nature. Defining death is difficult since it often involves ideas of a soul or a spiritual entity which is believed to live on in various metaphysical realms. However, the universal aspect which characterises death is the corpse. The absence of life is physical, material and real; it is a dead body. It is this primary materiality of death which triggers human responses to the inevitable, and all funerals, in one way or another, solve the problem of the decaying corpse. The contributors to this book discuss and explore alternative ways of dealing with burials.

This is a collection of 16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006, exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death.

Contents:

The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs

Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard

More than Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology

Liv Nilsson Stutz

A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm

Fredrik Fahlander

Excavating the Kings’ Bones: The Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today

Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard

From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tomb side Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome

Regina Gee

Cremations, Conjecture and Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland

Paul R J Duffy & Gavin MacGregor

Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy)

Ulla Rajala

Reuse in Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground – Examples of Collective Memory

Anna Wickholm

Life and Death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula

Ana M. S. Bettencourt

Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional Contacts

Malin Aasbøe

The Use of Ochre in Stone Age Burials of the East Baltic

Ilga Zagorska

“Death Myths”: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway

Siv Kristoffersen & Terje Oestigaard

Reproduction and Relocation of Death in Iron Age Scandinavia

Terje Gansum

A Road for the Viking’s Soul

Åke Johansson

A Road to the Other Side

Camilla Grön

Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in Uppland, Central Sweden

Christina Lindgren

BAR International Series 1768 2008

ISBN 9781407302577

160 pages Archaeology: Seedare

Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs

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