Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis

by Lane Anderson Beck (Editor)

Overview

In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306449314
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	02/28/1995
Series:	Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- 1 • On Mortuary Analysis—with Special Reference to the Saxe-Binford Research Program.- II. Landscapes and Mortuary Sites.- 2 • Ten Years After—Megaliths, Mortuary Practices, and the Territorial Model.- 3 • Mortuary Behavior, Labor Organization, and Social Rank.- 4 • Diachronic Regional Social Dynamics: Mortuary Sites in the Illinois Valley/American Bottom Region.- 5 • Landscapes and Mortuary Practices: A Case for Regional Perspectives.- III. Identities and Boundaries.- 6 • Mortuary Custom in the Bronze Age of Southeastern Hungary: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives.- 7 • Kingdom and Community in Early Anglo-Saxon Eastern England.- 8 • Regional Cults and Ethnic Boundaries in “Southern Hopewell”.- IV. Population Analysis.- 9 • Regional Approaches to the Investigation of Past Human Biocultural Structure.- 10 • An Osteological Perspective on Prehistoric Warfare.- V. Concluding Remarks.- 11 • Regional Perspectives on Mortuary Analysis.- Series Publications.

Editorial Reviews

Papers from a symposium held by the Society for American Archaeology in 1991 provide an historical review of the archaeology of death from its foundation in social theory through its modern criticisms, and discuss landscapes and mortuary sites, mortuary analysis and identities, contributions to the field from biological anthropology, and expanding the models for mortuary analysis to a regional scale. Includes case studies and discussion on regions including the Illinois Valley, Neolithic Europe, Bronze Age Hungary, and Anglo-Saxon England. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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