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"Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revealed evidence of the original funerary deposit. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters. The primary focus of the volume is on cases of unexpected interference with individual graves soon after burial: re-encounters with human remains not anticipated by those who performed the funerary rites and constructed the tombs. However, a first step is always to distinguish these from natural and accidental processes, and methodological approaches are a major theme of discussion. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics. The introduction presents many of the methodological issues which recur throughout the contributions, as this is a developing area with new approaches being applied to analyze post-depositional processes in graves"--

Human remains (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Burial --- Archaeothanatology.

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Archéologie funéraire. --- Fouilles archéologiques. --- Archaeothanatology. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Sahara occidental. --- Western Sahara.

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"Depuis que son statut scientifique a été établi à la fin du XIIIe siècle, l’archéologie funéraire se trouve au cœur des recherches menées sur les sociétés antiques d’Italie du Sud. Suscitant comme les vases l’admiration des élites culturelles, les marqueurs de tombe des nécropoles de la région se sont très tôt retrouvés dans les collections européennes, privés de contexte, et ont été étudiés par les historiens de l’art avant d’attirer l’attention des archéologues.En prenant en compte les questions de terminologie – bien qu’il soit moderne, le mot « marqueur » est pertinent – et sur la base d’un corpus d’environ huit cents éléments réunis dans une base de données en ligne, ce volume démontre qu’une étude minutieuse et méthodique des marqueurs enrichit la connaissance historique et ouvre de nouvelles perspectives. Ces édifices et objets installés dans les nécropoles avaient pour fonctions de signaler les tombes, de définir le nouveau statut du mort et de lui rendre hommage ainsi que de célébrer sa famille aux yeux des vivants, véritables acteurs de performances au sein des nécropoles. Du Ve – quand les échanges s’intensifient entre les populations implantées dans la région – au IIIe siècle avant notre ère – quand les Romains y prennent pied –, ils donnent donc à voir des pans entiers et méconnus des sociétés grecques et non grecques d’Italie du Sud et de leur genèse. Cette étude, confrontant l’ensemble des sources disponibles, aborde des aspects variés des sociétés : mutations sociales, hiérarchisation des communautés et affirmation de pouvoir, relations entre Grecs et non-Grecs, phénomènes d’acculturation, rites funéraires et croyances eschatologiques, paysages funéraires".

Archéologie funéraire --- Monuments funéraires --- Acculturation --- Archéologie funéraire --- Monuments funéraires --- Archaeothanatology --- Sepulchral monuments --- Magna Graecia (Italy) --- Antiquities.

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A wide-ranging treatment on the meaning of death, and its juxtaposition with life, from biological, cultural, and spiritual perspectives. Dozens of case studies accompany the principal essays written by scholars, Indigenous community members, and curators of the exhibition 'Death: Life's Greatest Mystery'.

Archaeothanatology --- Future life --- Social aspects --- Field Museum of Natural History --- Tod --- Mensch --- Kulturgeschichte --- Menschen --- Homo sapiens --- Homo --- Anthropologie --- Menschheit --- Lebensende --- Sterben --- Thanatologie --- Death

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The two coffin ensembles of the Tairkap and the Pestjenfi came to Berlin 200 years ago, but were never fully edited. Together they offer an instructive insight into the possibilities available to the producers of coffins and their decoration in Thebes in the 7th century BC. The basis of the publication now presented is a specially created, comprehensive photographic documentation of the four surviving coffins and the two canopic chests, supplemented by the available images of the lost outer coffin of the Pestjenfi. All images and inscriptions are described in detail or fully translated and compared with variants on other coffins from the same era. In particular, the text program of the Tairkap coffins proves to be innovative in several respects, while the Pestjenfi coffins show a discrepancy between their remarkable craftsmanship and the inscriptions, which are not always immediately understandable. The detailed breakdown of the name and title spellings as well as extensive documentation of the individual character forms facilitate the use of these objects, which are highly interesting in many respects, for prosopographic and palaographic questions.

Coffins --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Archaeothanatology --- Mummies --- Burial --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Sepulchral monuments --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Coffins --- Ägyptisches Museum Berlin (Germany : West) --- Coffin texts. --- Egypt --- Antiquities