Homines, Funera, Astra 3-4: The Multiple Faces of Death and Burial
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Homines, Funera, Astra 3-4: The Multiple Faces of Death and Burial

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Funerary Anthropology, '1 Decembrie 1918' University (Alba Iulia, Romania)

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Homines, Funera, Astra 3-4: The Multiple Faces of Death and Burial

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Funerary Anthropology, '1 Decembrie 1918' University (Alba Iulia, Romania)

About this book

The third volume of the Homines, Funera, Astra series gathers works presented at the third and fourth editions of the International Symposium on Funerary Archaeology: Death and Fire in Ancient Times (15–18 September 2013), and Time and Cause of Death from Prehistory to the Middle Ages (21–23 September 2014), both held at the '1 Decembrie 1918' University in Alba Iulia, Romania. The contributions focus on two central topics regarding past funerary behaviour in Central and South-Eastern Europe: cremation, and cause and time of death. As in previous volumes, interdisciplinarity is a key feature. The study of archaeological contexts through 14C dating and Bayesian modelling, osteological studies including palaeopathologies, and epigraphic and numismatic evidence were all taken into account to establish the various causes of death and/or the moment these tragic events took place. The present volume includes 13 studies, six of which are dedicated to prehistoric funerary practices – dating to the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods (four studies), Bronze Age (one study) and Iron Age (one study). Three more papers are focused on the Roman Age, while the volume is completed with four papers on the Medieval period, overall providing a wealth of new information on funerary behaviour in this part of Europe.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright info
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures and tables
  6. Foreword
  7. List of contributors
  8. Neolithic and the sacred fire
  9. Burned bones from the Late Neolithic Hamangia cemetery at Cernavodă, Romania
  10. The times of their death – question of contemporaneity in burials from a Late Neolithic settlement in Polgár – Csőszhalom (NE Hungary)
  11. A ditch in time
  12. Landscape of the living and landscape of the dead
  13. Early Iron Age burials at Gelmar (Hunedoara County, Romania)
  14. Mors immatura
  15. The critical years of life: Censorinus on the right time of death
  16. Osteoarchaeological study of cremation burials from the Roman period necropolis of Zadar: taphonomy, demography and pathology
  17. Meeting a medieval community of Bizere Monastery
  18. Disappearance of grave goods: changes in burial practices in 14th century Ivanec, Croatia
  19. Can the position of the forearms serve as a dating determinant in medieval and early modern cemeteries on the territory of the northern Croatia?
  20. Coin finds at Crkvari – Saint Lawrence Church site (northern Croatia) as terminus ante quem non for funerary features