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Artifacts Of Mourning - Archaeology Of The Historic Burial Ground Of The First Baptist Church Of Philadelphia

by Leader George M. Leader

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 A fascinating, lavishly illustrated account, aimed at a non-specialist audience, of the excavation of over 500 burials unexpectedly discovered during development work associated with the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. In 2016, construction workers in Philadelphia unexpectedly uncovered a long forgotten burial ground. Archaeologists quickly discovered this was the location of the burial ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, used as early as 1722. It was thought to have been exhumed and moved in 1859. Months of excavations revealed almost 500 individual burials still remained. This book shares the complex story of the discovery and excavations. It provides backgrounds of the church, Philadelphia, and the religious climate of the time to give context to the thousands of artifacts that were discovered and are presented in their entirety. The numerous coffin handles and plaques link directly back to English production and are embedded with powerful mortuary symbols. Highlighting cultural exchange between colonial America and England, Artifacts of Mourning provides an important record of 18th- and 19th-century funerary culture.
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&Quote;And So The Tomb Remained&Quote; - Exploring Archaeology And Forensic Science Within Connecticut''S Historical Family Mausolea

by Bellantoni Nick Bellantoni

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 Tells the stories of the investigations into five 18th/19th century family tombs.
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&Quote;And So The Tomb Remained&Quote; - Exploring Archaeology And Forensic Science Within Connecticut''S Historical Family Mausolea

by Bellantoni Nick Bellantoni

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 Tells the stories of the investigations into five 18th/19th century family tombs.
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Grave Disturbances - The Archaeology Of Post-Depositional Interactions With The Dead

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 This volume examines the post-depositional interactions of past humans and the way that graves and human remains were approached by people in the past.
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Grave Disturbances - The Archaeology Of Post-Depositional Interactions With The Dead

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 This volume examines the post-depositional interactions of past humans and the way that graves and human remains were approached by people in the past.
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Living With The Dead - Ancestor Worship And Mortuary Ritual In Ancient Egypt

by Harrington Nicola Harrington

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 Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the living and the dead.
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Living Through The Dead - Burial And Commemoration In The Classical World

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 This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory.
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Burial In Later Anglo-Saxon England, C.650-1100 Ad

by Annia Cherryson e Jo Buckberry

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 Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting.
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Death Embodied - Archaeological Approaches To The Treatment Of The Corpse

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 New insights into the role of the body, living and dead, in the funerary practices of past communities
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Engaging With The Dead - Exploring Changing Human Beliefs About Death, Mortality And The Human Body

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 Presents important new insights into our understanding and interpretation of past mortuary practices, by integrating archaeological data with theoretical and evidential studies of modern funerary practices, ethnograhpy, theology and textual anaysis
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Death As A Process - The Archaeology Of The Roman Funeral

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 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.
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Life And Death In Asia Minor In Hellenistic, Roman And Byzantine Times - Studies In Archaeology And Bioarchaeology

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 Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC - AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and death rates, pathology and nutrition, body actions, genetics, osteobiography, and mobility patterns and diet. The areas covered in Asia Minor include the sites of Hierapolis, Laodikeia, Aphrodisias, Tlos, Ephesos, Priene, Kyme, Pergamon, Amorion, Gordion, Boazkale, and Arslantepe.The theoretical and methodological approaches used make it highly relevant for people working in other geographical areas and time periods. Many of the articles could be used as case studies in teaching at schools and universities. An important objective of the publication has been to see how the different types of results emerging from archaeological and natural science studies respectively could be integrated with each other and pose new questions on ancient societies, which were far more complex than historical and social studies of the past often manage to transmit.
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Burial And Social Change In First Millennium Bc Italy - Approaching Social Agents

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 In the first millennium BC, communities in Italy underwent crucial transformations which scholars have often subsumed under the heading of ‘state formation’, namely increased social stratification, the centralization of political power and, in some cases, urbanization. Most research has tended to approach the phenomenon of state formation and social change in relation to specific territorial dynamics of growth and expansion, changing modes of exploitation of food and other resources over time, and the adoption of selected socio-ritual practices by the ruling élites in order to construct and negotiate authority. In contrast, comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of how these key developments resonated across the broader social transect, and how social groups other than ruling élites both promoted these changes and experienced their effects. The chief aim of this collection of 14 papers is to harness innovative approaches to the exceptionally rich mortuary evidence of first millennium BC Italy, in order to investigate the roles and identities of social actors who either struggled for power and social recognition, or were manipulated and exploited by superior authorities in a phase of tumultuous sociopolitical change throughout the entire Mediterranean basin. Contributors provide a diverse range of approaches in order to examine how power operated in society, how it was exercised and resisted, and how this can be studied through mortuary evidence. Section 1 addresses the construction of identity by focusing mainly on the manipulation of age, ethnic and gender categories in society in regions and sites that reached notable power and splendor in first millennium BC Italy. These include Etruria, Latium, Campania and the rich settlement of Verucchio, in Emilia Romagna. Each paper in Section 2 offers a counterpoint to a contribution in Section 1 with an overall emphasis on scholarly multivocality, and the multiplicity of the theoretical approaches that can be used to read the archaeological evidence.
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Archaeology Of Cremation - Burned Human Remains In Funerary Studies

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 First comprehensive study of the processes, ritual and practices involved in the cremation of human bodies.
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Death And Changing Rituals - Function And Meaning In Ancient Funerary Practices

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 The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals - how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.
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Deviant Burial In The Archaeological Record

by Murphy Eileen M. Murphy

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 This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries.
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Archaeology Of The Dead - Lectures In Archaeothanatology

by Cipriani Anna Maria Cipriani, Duday Henri Duday e Pearce John Pearce

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 Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004.
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The Bell Beaker Transition In Europe - Mobility And Local Evolution During The 3rd Millennium Bc

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 New perspectives on social, technological and physical anthropological aspects of the European Bell Beaker transition.
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"And So The Tomb Remained" - Exploring Archaeology And Forensic Science Within Connecticut'S Historical Family Mausolea

by Nick Bellantoni

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 Tells the stories of the investigations into five 18th/19th century family tombs.
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Roman And Medieval Exeter And Their Hinterlands - From Isca To Excester

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 Explores the development of Roman and medieval Exeter and its hinterland.
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Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time' - International Archaeology In Sicily

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 Collaborative papers combine various schools of thought to produce a uniquely productive methodological, theoretical and interpretative analysis of Sicily in the Bronze Age to Roman period.
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Karia And The Dodekanese - Cultural Interrelations In The Southeast Aegean Ii Early Hellenistic To Early Byzantine

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 Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II, presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than 700 years.
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Karia And The Dodekanese - Cultural Interrelations In The Southeast Aegean I Late Classical To Early Hellenistic

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 The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. I, focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period.
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The Sacred Body - Materializing The Divine Through Human Remains In Antiquity

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 Investigates regional roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics, empasising the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of human death.
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