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Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken and shared by two trade parties, dog jaws accompanying the dead in Mesolithic burials, fragments of ancient warships commodified as souvenirs, parts of an ancient dynastic throne split up between different colonial collections... Pieces of the past are everywhere around us. Fragments have a special potential precisely because of their incomplete format – as a new matter that can reference its original whole but can also live on with new, unrelated meanings. Deliberate br...
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not only funerary rituals and intergenerational engagement with forebears, but also concerns encounters with the dead who died centuries and millennia ago. Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancien...
Grave Disturbances
Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revea...
Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change
Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change examines the relationships between burial practices and societal transformations in the past. This book highlights the centrality of burials as archaeological material for the understanding of societal change. It critically reassesses past approaches, and suggests new ways of understanding the relationship between burial practice and change in archaeology. Particular attention is given to archaeological periods where change was especially intense: so-called transition periods. The volume has a wide chronological and geographical scope, spanning the Early Bronze Age to the present day, and ranging geographically from Cyprus t...
A Life in Balkan Archaeology
This memoir is not really about research questions or main conclusions. It tells the story of a boy growing up in Plymouth, Devon, getting excited about archaeology after visits to mainland Greece and Crete, trying to get into Greek archaeology and relocating northwards into the Balkans, where he spent a career in prehistoric research. The chapters alternate between museum/university experiences and my major research projects. The experiences of working in that part of the world as the Third Balkan War was starting were dramatic and a history-style chapter is devoted to these beginnings. The Balkan prehistoric club in the west is a very small and select group so there is an intrinsic interes...
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the field and laboratory, and between francophone and anglophone funerary archaeological approaches to the remains of the dead and the understanding of societies, past and present. Interest in archaeothanatology has grown considerably in recent years in English-language scholarship. This timely publication moves away from anecdotal case studies to offer syntheses of archaeothanatological approaches with an eye to higher-level inferences about funerary behaviour and its meaning in the past. Written by francophone scholars who have contributed to the development of the field and anglopho...
Archeologia Medievale, XLVIII, 2021
Il volume XLVIII (2021) è suddiviso, come di consueto, in tre sezioni, Saggi, Notizie scavi e lavori sul campo e Note e Discussioni. Tra i saggi viene presentato un corposo contributo su S. Sisto Project (Pisa) a cura di F. Cantini. J. Celani pubblica un contributo sulle città dell’Umbria nel primo alto Medioevo, mentre M. Randazzo presenta uno studio sulla transizione bizantino-islamica nell’area di Enna. Conclude il volume la sezione Recensioni e segnalazioni. La sezione dedicata alle notizie degli scavi contiene un contributo sullo scavo della pieve di Santa Maria in Castello a Toano (dal cimitero alla torre di età comunale) (N. Mancassola), un secondo articolo è incentrato sulle ...
Approche archéologique des réouvertures de sépultures mérovingiennes dans le nord de la France (VIe-VIIIe siècle)
Cette étude explore les pratiques de réouverture de sépultures dans la moitié nord de la France au haut Moyen Âge (VIe-VIIIe siècles).
Excalibur, Durendal, Joyeuse : la force de l'épée
Le halo de mystère qui entoure au Moyen Âge l’épée du chevalier répond à une mythologie ancienne dont se font écho les chansons de geste, les romans arthuriens et les sagas scandinaves, tout comme l’iconographie et l’archéologie. L'épée est certes un outil fonctionnel, une prouesse technique et un objet d’art, mais aussi un artefact animé qui, dégageant une force surnaturelle, rend le chevalier invincible. Le combattant, le forgeron et les fées aimantes transmettant leurs épées sont au cœur de ce livre, qui explore les mentalités d’une époque révolue dont les récits continuent d’inspirer de nos jours l’heroic fantasy. L’épée est aussi le signe de la prépondérance sociale du chevalier et le symbole de la guerre dont il se réserve en exclusif l’exercice. Elle concrétise toutes les abstractions intellectuelles autour de l’usage de la violence légitime en société.
Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum
Much of the previous scholarship on Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) was done by individual scholars within the analyses of their fields. After the proceedings of the international Etty Hillesum Congress at Ghent University in November 2008, this Congress volume is the first joined effort by more than twenty Hillesum experts worldwide. It is an absorbing account of international scholarship on the life, works, and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum, whose life was shaped by the totalitarian Nazi regime. Hillesum’s diaries and letters illustrate her heroic struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of World War II. Building on new interest in theology, philosophy, and psychology, this book revives Hillesum research with a comprehensive rereading of both her published works and lesser-known secondary discourses on her life. The result is fascinating. With the current explosion of interest in inter-religious dialogue, peace studies, Judaism, the holocaust, gender studies, and mysticism, it is clear that this Congress volume will be invaluable to students and scholars in various disciplines.
