Death In The Iron Age Of Eastern England: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Of Human Remains From 800 Bc - Ad 60 (British)

Death in the Iron Age ofEastern Englandexplores the treatment of the non-cremated dead from 800BC - c.AD60 in what is now eastern England. The researchpresented identifies large-scale patterns in post-mortem treatment, furtheringexisting debates around excarnation practices, inhumation traditions and the'invisible dead'. The region has seen comparatively little in-depth study inrecent years, while the quantity of excavated material has increasedexponentially due to the rise of development-led archaeology. This book gathersand presents the known data to shed light on an under-researched part of Iron AgeBritain through the study of complete inhumations, partial skeletal remains anddisarticulated human bones. The data is interpreted via integratedmethodological approaches that combine contextual archaeology, osteology andbone taphonomy to better understand post-mortem processes, regional variationand the role of the dead in Iron Age societies.

• | Author: Michael Legge
• | Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd
• | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 140736023X
• | ISBN-13: 9781407360232