Breaking and making the ancestors : piecing together the urnfield mortuary process in the Lower-Rhine-Basin, ca. 1300-400 BC

Breaking and making the ancestors : piecing together the urnfield mortuary process in the Lower-Rhine-Basin, ca. 1300-400 BC /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Louwen, Arjan, 1986- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Netherlands.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Netherlands.
Cemeteries > Netherlands.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Netherlands > History.
Bronze age > Netherlands.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Bits and pieces
  • 1.1. true fact, alternative choices
  • 1.2. Urnfields on the edge of the continent: The Lower-Rhine-Basin
  • 1.3. historiographical circle
  • 1.4. From pots to people 2.0
  • 1.5. Research questions
  • 1.6. Dataset and methodology
  • 1.7. Research outline
  • 2. whole is more than the sum of its parts
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Practice in practice: more than a habit
  • 2.3. liminality of death
  • 2.4. Death as a Narrative
  • 2.5. Piecing together personhood in the Bronze- and Iron Age
  • 2.6. Conclusion
  • 3. Dissecting the urnfield funeral
  • 3.1. From practice theory to theory in practice
  • 3.2. urnfield mortuary process
  • 3.3. Building the database: the urnfield mortuary process in cells
  • 3.4. Selection of cemeteries
  • 4. body and the mortuary process
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Between deathbed and pyre
  • 4.3. cremation process
  • 4.4. Between cremation and interment
  • 4.5. Conclusion
  • 5. Objects and the urnfield mortuary process
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Urns
  • 5.3. Selection of objects
  • 5.4. Objects in relation to sex and age
  • 5.5. Treatment of objects
  • 5.6. Animals and the mortuary process
  • 5.7. "Admixtures"
  • 5.8. Conclusion: So many people, so many ways?
  • 6. Assembling the ancestors
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Everybody counts: The inclusivity of urnfields
  • 6.3. Assembling the dead: Modes of interment
  • 6.4. Interring bodies whole: The composition of inhumation graves
  • 6.5. Locating the grave
  • 7. related dead
  • 7.1. Meaning through practice
  • 7.2. origin of urnfield mortuary practices in view of a practice-based approach
  • 7.3. Personhood and the social dead
  • 7.4. Land, ancestors and the related dead
  • 8. Ancestral landscapes
  • 8.1. first holistic approach to urnfields
  • 8.2. On the longevity of late prehistoric farmsteads
  • 8.3. `population increase thesis' revisited
  • 8.4. open structure of late prehistoric burial grounds
  • 8.5. Urnfields as part of ancestral landscapes
  • 9. Breaking and making the ancestors
  • 9.1. fragmented past
  • 9.2. composite dead
  • 9.3. From land and ancestors to ancestral lands
  • 9.4. end of the urnfields as we know them
  • 9.5. Epilogue: Why we do the things we do.

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