Cultural Behaviour or Natural Processes? A Review of Southern Britain Iron Age Skeletal Remains - Couverture souple

Tracey, Justine

 
9781407310756: Cultural Behaviour or Natural Processes? A Review of Southern Britain Iron Age Skeletal Remains
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1407310755 ISBN 13 : 9781407310756
Editeur : BAR Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

This research focuses on the British Iron Age and challenging the current hypotheses of exposing the dead on five Iron Age sites in Hampshire and one from Dorset, England. Current theories are based on anthropological analogies and classical texts to understand and interpret the burial record. However, this research focused on understanding the formation of the burial record employing a new science-based methodology. This new approach is both integrated and multidisciplinary, combining the osteological and context taphonomic physical or material evidence to discern cultural behaviour from natural processes. The approach utilises a wide range of forensic anthropology and taphonomy, including l'anthropologie de terrain or archaeothanatology, to identify archaeological signatures from three key and interrelated areas: the remains, the deposition context, and the relationship between the corpse and its deposition circumstance. A new system of categorising Iron Age remains was developed to differentiate funerary and depositional behaviour between sites.

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À propos de l?auteur

Justine Tracey

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Éditeur
BAR Publishing
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1407310755
ISBN 13 
9781407310756
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
231
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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