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Rituals of Death - From Prehistoric Times to Now (Hardcover)
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Rituals of Death - From Prehistoric Times to Now (Hardcover)
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We all must die, and how society deals with the disposal is
fascinating in the way it reflects the beliefs of the people of the
time and ways in which they honour or do not honour the dead.
Having excavated prehistoric burials, the author weighs carefully
the evidence of what people might have thought of the dead through
the way they buried them and what was put into the graves. These
excavations were done mainly with the help of young people, and the
way that this has been organised in order to get the maximum
information has been an essential part of the task. The author
provides much detail of this that makes it more interesting and
personal. Burial customs change, so the book includes a section on
events such as the Black Death and cholera to show how such
catastrophes change people's minds and customs. The present problem
of burial has been highlighted as it was then by the horror of an
invisible disease, the effects of which we have to cope with. In
the past the causes of the disease, when discovered, led to Public
health inquiries into the causes, and to improvements in some
burial grounds. The traditional burial in God's little Acre' around
a church provides with much information about people through their
headstones and other monuments - something accessible to all who
visit our churches today, and examples from Northumberland give a
typical range of what we find there.
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