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Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain (Hardcover)
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Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain (Hardcover)
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Archaeologists have long acknowledged the absence of a regular and
recurrent burial rite in the British Iron Age, and have looked to
rites such as cremation and scattering of remains to explain the
minimal impact of funerary practices on the archaeological record.
Pit-burials or the deposit of disarticulated bones in settlements
have been dismissed as casual disposal or the remains of social
outcasts. In Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain, Harding examines
the deposition of human and animal remains from the period - from
whole skeletons to disarticulated fragments - and challenges the
assumption that there should have been any regular form of cemetery
in prehistory, arguing that the dead were more commonly integrated
into settlements of the living than segregated into dedicated
cemeteries. Even where cemeteries are known, they may yet represent
no more than a minority of the total population, so that other
forms of disposal must still have been practised. A further example
of this can be found in hillforts which, in addition to domestic
and agricultural settlements, evidently played an important role in
funerary ritual, as secure community centres where excarnation and
display of the dead may have made them a potent symbol of identity.
The volume evaluates the evidence for violent death, sacrifice, and
cannibalism, as well as age and gender distinctions, and
associations with animal burials, and reveals that 'formal'
cemetery burial or cremation was for most regions a minority
practice in Britain until the eve of the Roman conquest.
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