Archaeology of Death and Burial

Name: Archaeology of Death and Burial
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ISBN: 9781585440993

ISBN-10: 158544099X

ISBN-13: 9781585440993

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mike Parker Pearson

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Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Mike Parker Pearson is professor of archaeology at Sheffield University and an internationally renowned expert in the archaeology of death. The author of fourteen books and over 100 academic papers, he led the Stonehenge Riverside Project from 2003 to 2009. He has appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary Stonehenge Decoded and in the NOVA episode "Secrets of Stonehenge."



List of Figures


Acknowledgements



Learning from the Dead



From Now to Then: Ethnoarchaeology and Analogy



Reading the Body



Status, Rank and Power



Gender and Kinship



Placing the Dead



The Human Experience of Death



The Politics of the Dead



Epilogue: Death and Memory



Excavating Human Remains


Notes


Bibliography


Index