Secondary Burials and the Construction of Group Identities in Crete between the Second Half of the 4th and 2nd Millennia BC

• Autor: Luca Girella ; Simona Todaro
• MARIA MINA ; SEVI TRIANTAPHYLLOU ; YIANNIS PAPADATOS
• Materias: Anatomy ; Anthropology ; Applied anthropology ; Applied arts ; Applied sciences ; Architecture ; Arts ; Beehive tombs ; Behavioral sciences ; Biological sciences ; Biology ; Body tissues ; Bones ; Burial containers ; Burial monuments ; Burial mounds ; Burial practices ; Burial structures ; Cemeteries ; Civil engineering ; Connective tissues ; Construction engineering ; Cultural anthropology ; Cultural customs ; Death rites ; Engineering ; Excavations ; Funerary architecture ; Funerary rituals ; Human biology ; Human remains ; Long bones ; Ossuaries ; Rites of passage ; Rituals ; Skull ; Tombs
• Es parte de: An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean, 2016
• Descripción: Secondary mortuary practices entail the primary inhumation of the individual and the subsequent manipulation of its skeletal remains with actions of disarticulation, collection and relocation of selected bones from one location to another. It is, therefore, not easily identifiable in communal tombs,i.e.in those funerary structures that were used for successive multiple burials that required the partial or total relocation of the previous inhumations in order to allow the re-use of the burial ground. It is therefore hardly surprising that secondary mortuary practices have only recently been recognised in the communal tombs of the central and western Mediterranean from
  
• Editor: Oxbow Books
  
• Idioma: Inglés