Traditions Of Death And Burial Av Dr Helen Frisby

<p><b>The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism</b></p><p>Few subjects stir the imagination more than...

<p><b>The <i>archaeology of death and burial </i>is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies.</b> Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to...

This book explores the relationship and organization of 17th Century burial landscapes within their associated settlements and the wider setting of colonial northeast British North America to provide readers with a more holistic understanding of settlers'...

Papers focus on two central topics regarding past funerary behaviour in Central and South-Eastern Europe: cremation, and cause and time of death. Six studies relate to prehistory, from the Neolithic to Iron Age. Three more papers focus on the Roman Age...