The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

Sarah Tarlow is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester where she has taught and researched the archaeology of death and historical arcaheology since 2000. She has written several books and numerous academic articles and is an editor of Archaeological Dialogues.Liv Nilsson Stutz is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Linnaeus University. She has published widely on the topics of mortuary ritual in the past and on the debate on repatriation and reburial, and is an editor of Archaeological Dialogues.

• List of FiguresList of Text BoxesList of TablesList of Contributors1: Liv Nilsson Stutz and Sarah Tarlow: Beautiful Things and Bones of Desire: Emerging Issues in the Archaeology of Death and BurialPart 1: Approaches to Death and Burial2: Adam Stout: Cultural History, Race, and Peoples3: Did Prehistoric Man Bury his Deada Early Debates on Palaeolithic Burials in a National Context4: Robert Chapman: Death, Burial, and Social Representation5: Susan Kus: Death and the Cultural Entanglements of the Experienced, the Learned, the Expressed, the Contested, and the ImaginedPart 2: The Nature of the Evidence6: Charlotte Roberts: The Bioarchaeology of Health and Well-being: Its Contribution to Understanding the Past7: Barbara Bramanti: The Use of DNA Analysis in the Archaeology of Death and Burial8: Gunilla Eriksson: Stable Isotope Analysis of Humans9: Jacqueline McKinley: Cremation: Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Material from Cremation-related Contexts10: Fredrik Ekengren: Contextualising Grave Goods: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological ImplicationsPart 3: The Human Experience of Death across Cultural Contexts11: Howard Williams: Death, Memory, and Material Culture: Catalytic Commemoration and the Cremated Dead12: David Edwards: African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and Mortuary Archaeology13: Lars Fogelin: The Place of Veneration in Early South Asican Buddhism14: Andrew Petersen: The Archaeology of Death and Burial in the Islamic World15: Deirdre O Sullivan: Burial of the Christian Dead in the Later Middle Ages16: Estella Weiss-Krejci: The Unburied Dead17: Julien Riel-Salvatore and Claudine Gravel-Miguel: Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record18: Chantal Coneller: Power and Society: Mesolithic Europe19: James Brown: Archaeological Study of Mortuary Practices in the Eastern United States20: Robert Chapman: The Living and the Dead in Later Prehistoric Iberia21: Peter Kaulicke: The Powerful Dead of the Inca22: Joshua Wright: Land-ownership and Landscape Belief: Introduction and Contexts23: Magdalena Midgley: Megaliths in North-West Europe: the Cosmology of Sacred Landscapes24: John Robb: Creating Death: an Archaeology of Dying25: Alexander Gramsch: Treating Bodies Transformative and Communicative Practices26: Melanie Giles: Preserving the Body27: Terje Oestigaard: Cremations in Culture and Cosmology28: Chris Fowler: Identities in Transformation: Identities, Funerary Rites, and the Mortuary Process29: Joanna Sofaer and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen: Death and Gender30: Gillian Shepherd: Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Burials31: Maureen Carroll: Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Funerary Commemoration: Case Studies from the Empire s Frontiers32: Alice Yao: Engendering Ancestors through Death Ritual in Ancient China33: Erica Hill: Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late Moche34: Sarah Tarlow: Belief and the Archaeology of Death35: Erella Hovers and Anna Belfer-Cohen: Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo36: Claudia Naeser: Equipping and Stripping the Dead: A Case-study on the Procurement, Compilation, Arrangement, and Frag­ment­ation of Grave Inventories in New Kingdom ThebesPart 4: The Ethics and Politics of Burial Archaeology37: Sapient trouble-tombs'a Archaeologists'Mmoral Obligations to the Dead38: Morag Kersel and Meredith Chesson: Looting Matters Early Bronze Age Cemeteries of Jordan's southeast Dead Sea Plain in the Past and Present39: Joe Watkins: How Ancients Become Ammunition: Politics and Ethics of the Human Skeleton40: Cressida Fforde: In Search of Others: the History and Legacy of 'race' collections41: Colin Pardoe: Repatriation, Reburial, and Biological Research in Australia: Rhetoric and Practice42: Layla Renshaw: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Modern Military Death43: Layla Renshaw: The Exhumation of Civilian Victims of Conflict and Human Rights Abuses: Political, Ethical, and Theoretical Considerations44: Liv Nilsson Stutz: Contested Burials: The Dead as Witnesses, Victims, and Tools

"This book is clear testimony to the impressive breadth of the archaeology of death and to its significance as a central theme within world archaeology."