Contextual archaeology of burial practice : case studies from Roman Britain / John Pearce
This study explores the insights into provincial Roman societies that can be gained from the archaeological evidence for burial practice, focused on Britain, drawing on wider work in the archaeology of death. It evaluates the distribution of burial evidence and the factors that condition it, includi...
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Superior document: | British archaeological reports. British series 588 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | British archaeological reports. British series
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Classification: | 15.28 - Römisches Reich |
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Physical Description: | x, 247 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
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Summary: | This study explores the insights into provincial Roman societies that can be gained from the archaeological evidence for burial practice, focused on Britain, drawing on wider work in the archaeology of death. It evaluates the distribution of burial evidence and the factors that condition it, including, it is argued, archaeologically invisible burial continuing from the Iron Age. It reviews the archaeological evidence for cremation rituals and explores how social status was expressed through burial, primarily in case studies from south-east England. Funerary ritual was a dynamic arena for asserting social status throughout the Roman period, taking forms that can be read as both 'traditional' and 'Roman'. The setting of burial is assessed to establish spatial relationships between living and dead in town and country and the distribution of funerary display across the landscape. |
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ISBN: | 9781407311968 |
ac_no: | AC15082662 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | John Pearce |