Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe: From Inhumation to Cremation

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Half-title
Title page
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
One Introduction: Changing Practices and Perception of the Body
	Reflections on Aims and Scope
	The Body: As Materiality and the Location of Death
	Discussing Beliefs
	About Burials and Cremations
	Our Position
Two A Brief History of Urns, Urnfields, and Burial in the Urnfield Culture
	Tripping over Urns: Early Recognition and Explanations of Urns and Urnfields
	Framing Time: The Birth of the \'Urnfield\'
	Ethnic Explanations: \'Urnfield People\' and \'Urnfield Culture\'
	Understanding How Cultural Practices Spread: Migrations and Diffusions
	Explaining Urnfield Symbolism, Beliefs, and Religion
	Recent Trends
Three Theoretical Framework
	The Corpse Is a Body, Too
	Materiality: Making People and Burials
	Briefly on Methodology: Investigating How Burials Are Conducted and Graves Constructed
	The Importance of Temporality: Chaînes Opératoires and Biographies
Four The Bronze Age: Setting the Scene
	Chronology: Event or Process
	The Social Landscapes
	The Body in Domestic Contexts
	The Individual, Mobility, and Life Expectancy
	Aspects of Beliefs: Hoards and Iconography
	Representations and Treatments of the Body
	Burial Practices
	People-Objects Relations
	The Challenge of Change
Five The Changing Bronze Age Body: Introduction of Case Studies
	Hungary: Early Cremations and Regional Variations
	Pitten: Experimentation and Within-Cemetery Variation
	Vollmarshausen: Conformity and Post-Funerary Engagement
	Bavaria: Objects and Pyre Debris (Zuchering, Grundfeld)
	Marburg: Mounds and Memory Spaces
	Lüneburg Area: Transformation of People-Object Relations
	Denmark: Complex Choreographies in Burial Mounds
Six The Treatment of the Body: Compatibility and Divergence
	The First Stage: The Temporal Span between Death and Cremation
	The Second Stage: The Technology and Performance of Cremation
	The Third Stage: Treatment of the Fragmentary Cremated Remains - Categories for Separating and Remaking Bodies
	Different or Similar: Cremated Bodies and Other Human Bodies
	Different or Similar: Entanglement of Cremated Bodies, Animals, and Things
	Summative Reflections
Seven The Construction of Graves: Coherence and Variations
	Variation in Graves: Form and Shape
	Summative Reflections
Eight After the Burial: Prolonged Engagement with the Body
	Feeding the Dead and Commensality at Graves
	Creating Spaces for Continued Interaction
	Disturbing the Grave: The Phenomenon of \'Grave Robbing\' or Reaccession
	Post-Burial Practices as Part of Local Webs of Meaning
Nine Conclusions: On the Nature of Change in Burial Practices
	The Mechanisms of Change
	The Anatomical Body
	The Need for a Room: Transforming Dimensions
	Containers and Containment
	Returning to the Question of \'Origin\'
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Index