Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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This volume centers on the application of social theory to commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in the past.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-23
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBioarchaeology and Social Theory
Antal sidor255
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319373133

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Anna Osterholtz has recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas focusing on social change, migration, and identity during the Bronze Age on Cyprus. Her primary research interests center around commingled and fragmentary assemblages of human remains and the unique stories they tell. She has active research projects in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean.

Chapter 1: Introduction Debra Martin and Anna J. Osterholtz.- Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Platforms: Commingled Remains and the Life-Course of Houses at Neolithic Çatalhöyük Scott D. Haddow, Joshua W. Sadvari, Christopher J. Knüsel and Rémi Hadad.- Chapter 3: Bodies in Motion: Identity and Migration in Cyprus during the Bronze Age Anna J. Osterholtz.- Chapter 4: Part of the Family: Age, identity and burial in Copper Age Iberia Jess Beck.- Chapter 5: Limited Circumstances: Creating a Better Understanding of Prehistoric Peoples through the Reanalysis of Collections of Commingled Human Remains Maria Panakhyo and Keith Jacobi.- Chapter 6: When space is limited: A spatial exploration of pre-Hispanic mortuary and ritual microlandscape Lori Epistein and J. Marla Toyne.- Chapter 7: Patterned Processing as Performative Violence Anna Osterholtz.- Chapter 8: Contexts, needs and social messaging: Situating Iroquoian human bone artifacts in southern Ontario, Canada Tara Jenkins.- Chapter 9: In morbo et in morto: transforming age and identity within the mortuary context of Oymaağaç Höyük, northern Turkey Kathryn E. Marklein and Sherry C. Fox.- Chapter 10: Linking Health and Marriage Practices among Commingled Assemblages: A Case Study from Bronze Age Tell Abraq, UAE Kathryn Baustian and Cheryl Anderson.- Chapter 11: CemeteryPreservation and Beautification of Death: Investigations of Unmarked Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century Burial Grounds and Cemeteries in Central Kentucky Peter Killoran, David Pollack, Stuart Nealis, Emily Rinker.- Chapter 12: Commingled Bodies and Mixed and Communal Identities Tiffiny A. Tung.