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Death as a Process - The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral (Paperback)
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Death as a Process - The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral (Paperback)
Series: Studies in funerary Archaeology, 12
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The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting
and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent
decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across
Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to
explore new insights from analysis of the Roman dead, concerning
both the rituals which saw them to their tombs and the communities
who buried them. In particular the volume seeks to establish how
the ritual sequence, from laying out the dead to the pyre and tomb,
and from placing the dead in the earth to the return of the living
to commemorate them, may be studied from archaeological evidence.
Contributors examine the rites regularly practised by town and
country folk from the shores of the Mediterranean to the English
Channel, as well as exceptional circumstances, as in the aftermath
of the Varian disaster in Augustan Germany. Case studies span a
cross-section of Roman society, from the cosmopolitan merchants of
Corinth to salt pan workers at Rome and the rural poor of Britannia
and Germania. Some papers have a methodological focus, considering
how human skeletal, faunal and plant remains illuminate the dead
themselves and death rituals, while others examine how to interpret
the stratigraphic signatures of the rituals practised before,
around and after burial. Adapting anthropological models, other
papers develop interpretive perspectives on the funerary sequences
which can thus be reconstructed and explore the sensory dimensions
of burying and commemorating the dead. Through these varied
approaches the volume aims to demonstrate and develop the richness
of the insights into Roman society and culture which may be won
from study of the dead.
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