Burial & society : the chronological and social analysis of archaeological burial data / edited by Claus Kjeld Jensen & Karen Høilund Nielsen
1997, 1st edition. Aarhus : Aarhus University Press. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #406909
ISBN: 8772886862
Physical description; 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Introduction- towards a Danish burial archaeology? / Claus Kjeld Jensen & Karen Høilund Nielsen -- The nature of burial data / Heinrich Härke -- Burial data and correspondence analysis / Claus Kjeld Jensen & Karen Høilund Nielsen -- Chronological problems. The transition from the Early to the Late Bronze Age in Denmark / Karen Margrethe Hornstrup -- The schism of Anglo-Saxon chronology / Karen Høilund Nielsen -- From society to burial and from burial to society? Some modern analogies / Karen Høilund Nielsen -- The custom of sacrifice in Early Iron Age burial tradition / Soren Diinhoff -- Family, kin-group and community. On the study of social structure in Iron Age cemeteries (summary) / Jytte Ringtved -- Material culture as myth: weapons in Anglo-Saxon graves / Heinrich Härke -- Animal art and the weapon-burial rite- a political badge? / Karen Høilund Nielsen -- Scandinavian military equipment and the weapon-burial rite, AD 530 -- 800. Foreign influence and regional variation / Anne Nørgård Jørgensen -- Ladby: ship, cemetery and settlement / Anne Christina Sørensen -- Similar finds- different meanings? Some preliminary thoughts on the Viking-age burials with riding equipment in Scandinavia / Anne Pedersen -- Christianity and Christian burial. The religious background, and the transition from paganism to Christianity, from the perspective of a churchyard archaeologist / Jakob Kieffer-Olsen -- Final comments: ritual, symbolism and social inference / Heinrich Härke. Subjects; Tombs Europe. Burial Social aspects Europe. Social archaeology Europe. Sépulture Aspect social Europe. Archéologie sociale Europe. Antiquities. Social archaeology. Tombs. Burial Social aspects. Archaeology Methodology. BURIAL ARCHAEOLOGY. Burial Europe History To 1500. Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. Civilization, Viking.
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