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Grave Disturbances - The Archaeology of Post-depositional Interactions with the Dead (Hardcover)
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Grave Disturbances - The Archaeology of Post-depositional Interactions with the Dead (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology, 14
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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.
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