Peterson Neolithic cave burials

Agency, structure and environment
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1887-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Social Archaeology and Material Worlds

This book provides the first synthetic overview of Neolithic cave burial and demonstrates its importance in understanding the period. It makes a substantial contribution to debates about collective burial in the Neolithic, adding data which is currently little known and not easily accessible to the discussion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterson, Rick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The body in the cave
2 In praise of limestone
3 Gestures and positions
4 How do caves act?
5 Origins
6 Written on the body
7 Deep time
8 Temporality, structure and environment
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rick Peterson is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire