Short description:

This book presents current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, by region, from Britain to Egypt, looking at all aspects of funerary archaeology, from scientific samples in graves, to grave goods and tomb robbing.

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Long description:

Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology A.D. 284-650, across the late antique world. This second volume includes papers exploring all aspects of funerary archaeology, from scientific samples in graves, to grave goods and tomb robbing and a bibliographic essay. It brings into focus neglected regions not usually considered by funerary archaeologists in NW Europe, such as the Levant, where burial archaeology is rich in grave good, to Sicily and Sardinia, where post-mortem offerings and burial manipulations are well-attested. We also hear from excavations in Britain, from Canterbury and London, and see astonishing fruits from the application of science to graves recently excavated in Trier.

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Table of Contents:

Volume 1

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors



Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Perspectives and Opportunities

 Luke Lavan

Bioarchaeology

Recent Bioarchaeological Research on Early Medieval Cemeteries in Italy

 Alexandra Chavarría Arnau, Leonardo Lamanna and Maurizio Marinato

Treatment of the Body

“To Make the Unseen Seen”: Organic Residue Analysis of Late Roman Grave Deposits

 Rhea C. Brettell, Eline M. J. Schotsmans, William H. C. Martin, Ben Stern and Carl P. Heron



The Colour of Death: Colour Symbolism and Burial in Roman Britain

 Chloe Clark



Funeral Processions in Late Antiquity

 Luke Lavan

Mausolea

Late Roman ‘Mausolea’ in Hispania

 José Miguel Noguera Celdrán and Javier Arce



Mausolea in North-West Europe: the Transition from the Roman to Late Antique Periods

 Christopher J. Sparey-Green



Late Roman Mausolea in Pannonia

 Zsolt Magyar



Mausolea in Late Antique Italy

 Mark J. Johnson



Changing Funerary Landscapes in Late Antiquity: Mausolea in North Africa

 Julia Nikolaus

Funerary Landscapes

Funerary Landscapes in Catalonia (3rd–6th c. AD)

 Judit Ciurana Prast



The Late Antique Funerary Landscape of Rome: 3rd to 4th c. AD

 Barbara E. Borg



Burying the Saints Next to the Common Dead: the Burial Habits of the Christian Elite in the 4th c. and the First Translations of Relics

 Efthymios Rizos



Topography and Ideology: Contested Episcopal Elections and Suburban Cemeteries in Late Antique Rome

 Samuel Cohen

Other Memorials: Statue Monuments

The Archaeology of Late Antique Statue Monuments

 Luke Lavan



The Many Lives of the Statue Bases of Lepcis Magna

 Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo

Tombs and Spolia in City Walls

Memorial and Oblivion in Late Antiquity: the Testimony of Spolia in City Walls

 Luke Lavan



The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments within Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the West

 Douglas Underwood



The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments in Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the East

 Nick Mishkovsky



Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 1: Africa and the East

 Luke Lavan



Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 2: The West

 Douglas Underwood and Luke Lavan

Spolia and Civic Memory

Urban Landscapes from Architectural Reuse: Spolia, Chronology and Civic Memory in Late Antique Ephesus

 Luke Lavan



Abstracts in French

Volume 2

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors



Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay

Part 1: Thematic and Regional Studies

 Solinda Kamani and Luke Lavan



Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay

Part 2: Key Sites

  Solinda Kamani

Regional Perspectives

Aspects of Late Roman Burial Practice in Southern Britain

 Paul Booth



Burial in Late Antiquity: Recent Evidence from Londinium

 Victoria Ridgeway and Sadie Watson



New Cemetery Evidence from Late Roman Canterbury: the Former Hallet’s Garage Site in Context

 Elizabeth Duffy, Adrian Gollop and Jake Weekes



Levis aesto terra – Early Christian Elite Burials from St. Maximin, Trier (Germany)

 Nicole Reifarth, Hiltrud Merten, Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen, Jens Amendt, Ina Vanden Berghe, Carl Heron, Julian Wiethold, Ursula Drewello, Rainer Drewello and Lukas Clemens



Funerary Patterns in Late Roman Cities (3rd to 7th c.): Reviewing Archaeological Data in Northern Italy

 Alexandra Chavarría Arnau



Funerary Practices in Late Antique Sardinia: Overview and Potential

 Mauro Puddu



Burial Rites in Byzantine Sicily – New Approaches and Discoveries

 Valentina Caminneci, Maria Serena Rizzo and Martin Carver



Late Roman Burials in Slovenia

 Kaja Stemberger



Death at the Edge of Empire: Burial Practices in the Province of Scythia (4th–7th c. AD)

 Ciprian Crețu and Andrei D. Soficaru



Burial and Society in the Greek World During Late Antiquity

 Joseph L. Rife



From Necropoleis to Koimetéria: Burial practices in Late Antique (late 3rd–7th c.) Sagalassos, South-West Turkey

Sam Cleymans and Peter Talloen



The Archaeology of Late Antique Mortuary Practices in the Near East

 Ádám Bollók



The Archaeology of Death and Burial in Late Antique Egypt

 Elisabeth O’Connell



Abstracts in French

Indices

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