The ritual killing and burial of animals : European perspectives

The ritual killing and burial of animals : European perspectives /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pluskowski, Aleksander
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, ©2012.
Subjects:
Animal sacrifice > Europe.
Animals, Fossil > Europe.
Animal remains (Archaeology) > Europe.
Human-animal relationships > Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Animal sacrifice
Animals, Fossil
Antiquities
Human-animal relationships
Tiere
Bestattung
Tieropfer
Ritual
Römerzeit
Europe > Antiquities.
Europe > Antiquités.
Europe
Europa
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the ritual killing and burial of animals in the past / Aleksander Pluskowski
  • Animal 'ritual' killing : from remains to meanings / James Morris
  • Ritualisation (or The four fully articulated ungulates of the apocalypse) / Lee Broderick
  • Nourishment for the soul, nourishment for the body : animal remains in early medieval Pomeranian cemeteries / Andrzej Kuczkowski and Kamil Kajowski
  • Spatial aspects of globular amphora culture funeral rites with animal deposits in Poland / Radosław Szczodrowski
  • Horse burials as public ritual : Lithuanian perspectives / Mindaugas Bertašius
  • Protohistoric animal deposits in the Alps. Considerations regarding a dog, a pig and four human neonates from the rural settlement of Gamsen (Valais, Switzerland) / Nicole Reynaud Savioz
  • Late antique and early medieval animal burials in Italy / Frank Salvadori
  • Distinct from the everyday and beyond counting calories : animal bones from "ritual spaces" in late Neolithic settlements at Lake Constance and in Upper Suebia / Karlheinz Steppan
  • Animal deposits in the late Copper Age settlement of Balatonőszöd-Temetői dűlő, Hungary / Tünde Horváth
  • Dealing with deposits in the Dutch River Area : animals in settlement rituals in the Roman period / Maaike Groot
  • Sheep foundation burials in Roman Winchester / Mark Maltby
  • Early Anglo-Saxon horse culture and funerary ritual (c. AD 450-650) : active mythology in a European context / Chris Fern
  • Evolving traditions : horse slaughter as part of Viking burial customs in Iceland / Rúnar Leifsson
  • Sacred cows or old beasts? : a taphonomic approach to studying ritual killing with an example from Iron Age Uppåkra, Sweden / Ola Magnell
  • Flesh on the bones : animal bodies in Atlantic roundhouses / Jacqui Mulville [and others]
  • "Stone dead" : dogs in a medieval sacral space / László Bartosiewicz.

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