Bronze Age Civilisation I

Teaching is based on oral lectures and power point presentations (uploaded on Dropbox-public link). A list of suggested bibliography enriched with theoretical articles provided for further reading for each thematic topic are also provided. Furthermore, a practical training of the students on skeletal anatomy and techniques for ageing and sexing will be organised. Lectures are often accompanied by tutorials where articles circulated in time are discussed.

Evaluation is based on the participation of the students to the tutorials and discussion throughout the course together with their ability in the writing up of a case study essay (5000 words).

Chapman, R., Kinnes, I.A. and K. Randsborg (eds). The Archaeology of Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-24. Huntington, R. and Metcalf, P. 1979. Celebrations of Death: the anthropology of mortuary ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Parker Pearson, M. 1999. The Archaeology of Death and Burial. Stroud: Sutton. Pettitt, P. 2010. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial. London: Routledge. Tarlow, S. and Nilsson Stutz, L. (eds) 2013. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ταφική αρχαιολογία: ο θάνατος και η μνήμη Bradley R., 2002. Projecting future pasts. Monuments and the formation of memory. The past in prehistoric societies. Fleming, A. 1973. Tombs for the Living. Man 8: 177-193. Εθνοαρχαιολογία και Ταφική Αρχαιολογία Ucko, P.J. 1969. Ethnography and archaeological interpretation of funerary remains. World Archaeology 1: 262-80. Binford, L. 1971. Mortuary practices: their study and their potential. In J. Brown (ed.) Approaches to the Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices. Washington DC: Memoir of the Society for American Archaeology 25. 6-29. Bloch, M. 1971. Placing the Dead: tombs, ancestral villages and kinship organization in Madagascar. London: Seminar Press. Danforth, L.M. 1982. The Death Rituals of Rural Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Dillehay, Tom D. 1995. Mounds of social death: Araucanian funerary rites and political succession. In Tombs for the Living: Andean Mortuary Practices, edited by Tom D. Dillehay, pp. 281-313. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington. Huntington, R. and Metcalf, P. 1979. Celebrations of Death: the anthropology of mortuary ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Metcalf, Peter A. 1976 Who are the Berawan? Ethnic classification and the distribution of secondary treatment of the dead in central north Borneo. Oceania 47:85-105. Parker Pearson, M. 1982. Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological case study. In I. Hodder (ed.) Symbolic and Structural Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 99-113. Kus, S. 1992 Toward an archaeology of body and soul. In J.-C. Gardin and C.S. Peebles (eds.) Representations in Archaeology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 168-77. Parker Pearson, M. 2000. Eating money: a study in the ethnoarchaeology of food. Archaeological Dialogues 7: 217-32. Ταφική αρχαιολογία: η μεταχείριση του σώματος Boulestin, B., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Jeunesse, C., Haack, F., Arbogast, R.-M. and Denaire, A. 2009. Mass cannibalism in the Linear Pottery Culture at Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany). Antiquity 83: 968-82. Chamberlain, A.T. and Parker Pearson, M. 2001 Earthly Remains: the history and science of preserved human bodies. London: British Museum. 169-88. Cox, Μ. 2008. The scientific investigation of mass graves: towards protocols and standard operating procedures, New York: Cambridge University Press. Degusta, D. 2000. Fijian cannibalism and mortuary ritual: bioarchaeological evidence from Vunda. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 10: 76-92. Duday, H. 2009. The Archaeology of the Dead: lectures in archaeothanatology. Oxford: Oxbow. Knüsel, C. and Gowland, R. (eds) 2006. Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains. Oxford: Oxbow. Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2010. Cremations: fragmented bodies in the Bronze and Iron Ages. In K. Rebay-Salisbury, M.-L. Stig Sørensen and J. Hughes (eds.), Body Parts and Bodies Whole: changing relations and meanings, 64-71. Oxford: Oxbow. Tarlow, S. 2002. The aesthetic corpse in nineteenth-century Britain. In Y. Hamilakis, M. Pluciennik and S. Tarlow (eds.), Thinking through the body: archaeologies of corporeality, 85-97. London: Kluwer. Turner, C.G. 1993. Cannibalism in Chaco Canyon: the charnel pit excavated in 1926 at Small House Ruin by Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 91: 412-39. Η Αρχαιολογία του θανάτου: σχέσεις ιεραρχίας και εξουσίας, κοινωνικές δομές Arnold, B. 2011. The illusion of power, the power of illusion: ideology and the concretization of social difference in Early-Iron Age Europe. In Bernbeck, R. and R.H. McGuire (eds.) Ideologies in Archaeology, 151-72. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Brown, J. A. 1971. The dimensions of status in the burials at Spiro. In J.A. Brown (ed.), Approaches to the Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices, 92-112. Society for American Archaeology Memoir 25. Brown, J. A. 1981. The search for rank in prehistoric burials. In R. Chapman, I. Kinnes, and K. Randsborg (eds.), The Archaeology of Death, 25-37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Byrd, B. F. and C. M. Monahan. 1995. Death, mortuary ritual, and Natufian social structure. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14: 251-287. Chesson, M. S. 1999. Libraries of the Dead: Early Bronze Age charnel houses and social identity at urban Babe dh-Dhra’, Jordan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18: 137-164. Morris, I. 1992. Death-ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 31-69. Peebles, C. and Kus, S. 1977. Some archaeological correlates of ranked societies. American Antiquity 42: 421-48. Randsborg, K. 1981. Burial, succession and early state formation in Denmark. In R. Chapman, I. Kinnes and Κ. Randsborg (eds.), The Archaeology of Death, 105-121. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wason, P. 1994. The Archaeology of Rank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Williams, H. 2004. Death warmed up: the agency of bodies and bones in early Anglo-Saxon cremation rites. Journal of Material Culture 9: 263-91. Η Αρχαιολογία του θανάτου: θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις Bartel, B. 1982. A historical review of ethnological and archaeological analyses of mortuary practices. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1:32-58. Binford, L. R. 1971. Mortuary practices: their study and their potential. In J. A. Brown (ed.), Approaches to the Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices, Society for American Archaeology Memoir 25: 6-29. Tainter, J. A. 1978. Mortuary practices and the study of prehistoric social systems. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 1:105-141. Braun, D. 1979. Illinois Hopewell burial practices and social organization: a reexamination of the Klunk-Gibson mound group. In D. Brose and N. Greber (eds.), Hopewell Archaeology: The Chillicothe Conference, 66-79. Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio. Palgi, P. and H. Abramovitch, 1984. Death: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Annual Review of Anthropology 13:385-417. Saxe, A. A. 1970. Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation,University of Michigan. O’Shea, John M. 1984. Mortuary Variability: An Archaeological Investigation. Academic Press, New York. Ταφική αρχαιολογία και τοπίο Chapman, R. 1981. The emergence of formal disposal areas and the “problem” of megalithic tombs in prehistoric Europe. In R. Chapman, I. Kinnes, and K. Randsborg (eds.) The Archaeology of Death, 71-81. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Charles, D. and J. Buikstra. 1983. Archaic mortuary sites in the central Mississippi drainage: distribution, structure, and behavioral implications. In J. L. Phillips and J.A. Brown (eds), Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest, 117-145. Academic Press, New York. Charles, D. K., and J. E. Buikstra. 2002. Siting, sighting and citing the dead. In H. Silverman and D. Small (eds.), The Space and Place of Death, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, no. 11, 13-25. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. Goldstein, Lynne. 1981. One-dimensional archaeology and multi-dimensional people: spatial organization and mortuary analysis. In R. Chapman, I. Kinnes, and K. Randsborg (eds.), The Archaeology of Death, 53-69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hodder, Ian. 1982. The identification and interpretation of ranking in prehistory: A contextual perspective. In Ranking, Resource and Exchange: Aspects of the Archaeology of Early European Society, edited by A. C. Renfrew and S. J. Shennen, pp. 150-154. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Metcalf, Peter. 1981. Meaning and materialism: The ritual economy of death. Man 16:564-578. Aries, Phillipe. 1974. Western Attitudes Toward Death. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Pearson, Michael Parker. 1982. 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