Papers focus on two central topics regarding past funerary behaviour in Central and South-Eastern Europe: cremation, and cause and time of death. Six studies re

The third volume of the Homines, Funera, Astraseries gathers works presented at the third and fourth editions of the International Symposium on Funerary Archaeo

This volume presents papers from the second Homines, Funera, Astra Symposium on Funerary Anthropology that took place in 2012. The study of human funerary behav

The study of burial practices, of human attitudes and behaviour in the face of death, has been an important part of archaeological research from its very beginn

Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial arc