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Death and Changing Rituals
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Brandt, J. Rasmus: Introduction: Ritual, Change and Funerary Practices

1. Nilsson Stutz, Liv: A Proper Burial: Some Thoughts on Changes in Mortuary Ritual and how Archaeology can begin to understand them
2. Dolfini, Andrea: Neolithic and Copper Age Mortuary Practices in the Italian Peninsula: Change of Meaning or Change of Medium?
3. Fowler, Chris: Change and Continuity in Early Bronze Age Mortuary Rites: A Case Study from Northumberland
4. Härke, Heinrich& Belinskij, Andrej: Causes and Contexts of Long-Term Ritual Change: the Iron Age to Early Medieval Cemetery of Klin-Yar (North Caucasus, Russia)
5. Brandt, J. Rasmus: Passage to the Underworld. Continuity or Change in Etruscan Funerary Ideology and Practices (6th–2nd c. BC)?
6. Ahrens, Sven:‘Whether by Decay or Fire consumed. . .’ Cremation in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
7. Pearce, John: A‘Civilised’ Death? The Interpretation of Provincial Roman Grave Goods Assemblages
8. Prusac, Marina: Friends, Foes and Hybrids: The Transformation of Burial Ritual in
Roman Dalmatia
9. Rebillard,Èric: Commemorating the Dead in North Africa: Continuity and Change from the 2nd–5th CE
10. Achim, Irina: Churches and Graves of the Early Byzantine Period in Scythia Minor and Moesia Secunda: The Development of a Christian Topography at the Periphery of the Roman Empire
11. Bowden, Will: Status Anxiety in Early Medieval Albania: The Komani-Kruja Cemeteries
12. Oestigaard, Terje: Changing Rituals and the Invention of Tradition: The burnt Viking Ship at Myklebostad, Western Norway
13. Gilchrist, Roberta: Transforming Medieval Beliefs: The Significance of Bodily Resurrection to Medieval Burial Rituals
14. Tarlow, Sarah: Changing Beliefs about the Dead Body in Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland
General Index

About the Author

J. Rasmus Brandt is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo.

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