The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion

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The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 232 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781785708282
  • DDC分類 200.9309009

Full Description

The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of 'environmental' remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behaviour, this book investigates notions of ritual and religion through the lens of perishable material culture. Research centring on bioarchaeological evidence and drawing on methods from archaeological science has traditionally focused on functional questions surrounding environment and economy. However, recent years have seen an increased recognition of the under-exploited potential for scientific data to provide detailed information relating to ritual and religious practice. This volume explores the diverse roles of plant, animal and other organic remains in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings, sensory or healing mediums, grave goods, and worked artefacts. It also provides insights into how archaeological science can shed light on the reconstruction of ritual processes and the framing of rituals. The 14 papers showcase current and new approaches in the investigation of bioarchaeological evidence for elucidating complex social issues and worldviews. The case studies are intentionally broad, encompassing a range of sub-disciplines of bioarchaeology, including archaeobotany, anthracology, palynology, micromorphology, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology (including avian and worked bone studies), archaeomalacology and organic residue analysis. The temporal and geographical coverage is equally wide, extending across Europe from the Mediterranean and Aegean to the Baltic and North Atlantic regions and from the Mesolithic to the medieval period. The volume also includes a discursive paper by Prof. Brian Hayden, who suggests a different interpretative framework of archaeological contexts and rituals.

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Preface

Alexandra Livarda, Richard Madgwick and Santiago Riera Mora

 

1. Ritual and Religion: Bioarchaeological Perspectives

Alexandra Livarda and Richard Madgwick

 

2. Sacred to the Soil: Micromorphology, Geoarchaeology, and the Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion, with Reference to the Iron Age Site of High Pasture Cave, Scotland

Jo McKenzie

 

3. Pollen Signatures of a Ritual Process in the Collective Burial Cave of Cova des Pas (Late Bronze Age, Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)

Santiago Riera Mora, Gabriel Servera-Vives, Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Manon Cabanis, Marzia Boi and Yannick Miras

 

4. The Final Masquerade: Resinous Substances and Roman Mortuary Rites

Rhea Brettell, Eline Schotsmans, William Martin, Ben Stern and Carl Heron

 

5. Plant Rituals and Fuel in Roman Cemeteries of Apulia (SE Italy)

Valentina Caracuta and Girolamo Fiorentino

 

6. Feasting in a Sacred Grove: a Multidisciplinary Study of the Gallo-Roman Sanctuary of Kempraten, Switzerland

Pirmin Koch, Örni Akeret, Sabine Deschler-Erb, Heide Hüster-Plogmann, Christine Pümpin and Lucia Wick

 

7. Ritual Meals and Votive Offerings: Shells and Animal Bones at the Archaic Sanctuary of Apollo at Ancient Zone, Thrace, Greece

Rena Veropoulidou and Daphne Nikolaidou

 

8. Animals and Rituals in Iron Age Iberian Settlements in the Region of Valencia, Spain

Maria Pilar Iborra Eres

 

9. Animal Biographies in the Iron Age of Wessex: Winnall Down, UK, Revisited

James Morris

 

10. Faunal Remains and Ritualisation: Case Studies from Bronze Age Caves in Central Italy

Letizia Silvestri, Mario F. Rolfo, Micaela Angle, Robin Skeates and Leonardo Salari

 

11. Towards an Archaeology of the Social Meanings of the Environment: Plants and Animals at the Prehistoric Ceremonial and Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)

Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Manuel Calvo Trias, Jaume Garcia Rosselló, Gabriel Servera-Vives, Giovanna Bosi, Jordi Nadal Lorenzo, Santiago Riera Mora and Ethel Allué

 

12. Animals and Worldviews: a Diachronic Approach to Tooth and Bone Pendants from the Mesolithic to the Medieval Period in Estonia

Tõnno Jonuks and Eve Rannamäe

 

13. Birds in Death: Avian Archaeology and the Mortuary Record in the Scottish Islands

Julia Best and Jacqui Mulville

 

14. Beyond Bones:  Ritual and Social Secrets in Archaeological Remains

Brian Hayden

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