How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and for

How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and for

This Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scie

The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only a

How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? This volume brings together a range o