Cultural behaviour or natural processes? : a review of Southern Britain Iron Age skeletal remains /

Cultural behaviour or natural processes? : a review of Southern Britain Iron Age skeletal remains /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tracey, Justine.
Imprint:	Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2013.
Description:	xi, 213 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 30 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	BAR British series ; 576 BAR British series ; 576.
Subject:	Human remains (Archaeology) -- England -- Hampshire. Human remains (Archaeology) -- England -- Maiden Castle. Iron age -- England -- Hampshire. Iron age -- England -- Maiden Castle. Burial -- England -- Hampshire -- History -- To 1500. Burial -- England -- Maiden Castle -- History -- To 1500. Atrebates (Celtic people) -- England -- Hampshire. Social archaeology -- England -- Hampshire. Social archaeology -- England -- Maiden Castle. Antiquities. Atrebates (Celtic people) Burial. Excavations (Archaeology) Human remains (Archaeology) Iron age. Social archaeology. Thanatology. Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Hampshire. Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Dorset. Thanatology. Hampshire (England) -- Antiquities. Maiden Castle (England) England -- Dorset. England -- Hampshire. England -- Maiden Castle. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9097701

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Varying Form of Title:	Review of Southern Britain Iron Age skeletal remains
ISBN:	9781407310756 (paperback) 1407310755 (paperback)
Notes:	Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Reading, 2012). Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-213).
Summary:	"Focuses on the British Iron Age and challenging the current hypotheses of exposing the dead on five Iron Age sites in Hampshire and one from Dorset, England. Current theories are based on anthropological analogies and classical texts to understand and interpret the burial record. However, this research focused on understanding the formation of the burial record employing a new science-based methodology. This new approach is both integrated and multidisciplinary, combining the osteological and context taphonomic physical or material evidence to discern cultural behaviour from natural processes. The approach utilises a wide range of forensic anthropology and taphonomy, including l'anthropologie de terrain or archaeothanatology, to identify archaeological signatures from three key and interrelated areas: the remains, the deposition context, and the relationship between the corpse and its deposition circumstance. A new system of categorising Iron Age remains was developed to differentiate funerary and depositional behaviour between sites. The results show that during the Iron Age several depositional practices can be observed: intentional exposure, propitiatory deposits and intentional practices where the body was kept whole in death, which ran in parallel with each other."--Abstract, p. xi.

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