The Archaeology of Death
Mortuary Archaeology in the United States and Europe 1990–2013
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Arnold (0000-0003-3359-8152, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), Robert J Jeske (Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-0413) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 325-346 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-025851 |
| OpenAlex | W2112142141 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 120 |
Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of evidence for past social systems, particularly those without writing. However, the political context within which archaeology developed as a discipline, especially in countries with a colonial past, has made it difficult or impossible for the burial record to be utilized to its full potential. Ironically, this moratorium on the use of human remains for research purposes has been accompanied by the development of new analytical techniques, including ancient DNA (aDNA) and chemical analysis of skeletal material, which provide powerful tools for understanding complex social relationships and mobility within and between ancient populations. This review focuses on the United States and Europe because of the close relationship between their scholarly communities, as a result of which the limits placed on mortuary archaeology in the United States has had and continues to have a direct impact on the development of the discipline in numerous European countries. The inferential potential of bioarchaeology in particular is discussed against the backdrop of these sociohistorical developments, and the case studies presented highlight the powerful array of interdisciplinary approaches now being brought to bear on our understanding of ancient social systems
Ancient DNA · Archaeological record · Archaeological theory · Archaeology · Bioarchaeology · Colonialism · Conflict archaeology · Context (archaeology · Historical archaeology · Material culture · Political science · Politics · Population · Post-medieval archaeology · Prehistoric archaeology · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic and Genetic Research · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Law
Primeros resultados para la puesta en valor patrimonial del “Cementerio Sud” (San Andrés de Giles, provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
The traditions of inverting objects, painting vermilion, and destroying vessels
Megaliths in Tropical Africa
A mass grave of young children and infants from the Persian period in Tel Azekah and its importance for the understanding of burial practices of unweaned infants
Missing Cemeteries” and Structural Racism
Secondary burial as evidence for alternative pathways to social complexity in Neolithic China
An execution in medieval Sicily
Copper-alloy Belts at Hasanlu, Iran
The Anthropology of Death Revisited
NAGPRA at 30
Violence and Perimortem Signaling among Early Irrigation Communities in the Sonoran Desert
Indigenous Archaeology
Der Mann im Eis
Diet, Status, and Complex Social Structure in Iron Age Central Europe
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain
Patterns of Activity-Induced Pathology in a Canadian Inuit Population
The Body as Material Culture
Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age
Mortuary practices, society and ideology
Stable Nitrogen Isotope Ratios of Bone Collagen Reflect Marine and Terrestrial Components of Prehistoric Human Diet
Reconstructing Archaeology
The Archaeology of Childhood
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
La Arqueología Funeraria Desde Una Perspectiva De Género
Blood Red Roses
Status and gender differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone
Archaeology Under Dictatorship
Troubled Times
The Dimensions of Status in the Burials at Spiro
Mortuary Practices
Ethics and burial archaeology
Ritualizing with the Poor
A historical review of ethnological and archaeological analyses of mortuary practice
The Evolution of a Cemetery
Pasts and pagan practices
A Willingness to Listen to Each Side”
Recognizing children’s graves in nineteenth-century cemeteries
Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Faunal Remains from the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Berinsfield, Oxfordshire
Stable isotope analysis of Late Upper Palaeolithic human and faunal remains from Grotta del Romito (Cosenza), Italy
Dietary patterns and social structures in medieval Sigtuna, Sweden, as reflected in stable isotope values in human skeletal remains
Evidence for “Celtic migrations”? Strontium isotope analysis at the early La Tène (LT B) cemeteries of Nebringen (Germany) and Monte Bibele (Italy)
What This Awl Means
Grave Injustice
Muerte e identidad femenina en el mundo argárico
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle
Faith and Practice at an Early-Eighteenth-Century Wampanoag Burial Ground
Violence Against Women in the La Plata River Valley (A.D. 1000-1300)
They Even Threaten the Sick That They Will Not Be Buried in the Churchyard”
Cannibalism, Warfare, and Drought in the Mesa Verde Region during the Twelfth Century A.D
The New York African Burial Ground Project
The Spiro Ceremonial Center
The Characterization of Biologically Available Strontium Isotope Ratios for the Study of Prehistoric Migration
Stable isotope analyses in human nutritional ecology
A simple carbon isotope model for reconstructing prehistoric human diet
Stature estimation in prehistoric Native Americans of Ohio
Reply to Schillaci & Bustard
Rescue Archaeology
Fragmentation in Archaeology
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Villagers of the Maros
Ethnography and archaeological interpretation of funerary remains
Social inference and mortuary practices
The Historical Dimension in Mortuary Expressions of Status and Sentiment [and Comments and Reply]
Nagpra Is Forever
Repatriation Reader
The Powerful Dead
The Bioarchaeology of Postmortem Agency
Chapter 5. American Archaeology's Uncertain Future
Chapter 3. Bioarchaeology as Anthropology
Chapter 2. Anthropology Must Have Archaeology
Interacting with the dead
Excavations at the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania
"Warrior Graves"? The Background of the Anglo-Saxon Weapon Burial Rite
Beyond Racism
Skeletal analysis and theoretical complications
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The king in the car park
The Proper Study of Mankind
Excavating memories
Conflicting evidence? Weapons and skeletons in the Bronze Age of south-east Iberia
The Mound-Builders
Political Systems of Highland Burma
Permeable and Partible Persons
The GE Mound
Archaeological Identification of Kin Groups Using Mortuary and Biological Data
Warfare in Late Prehistoric West-Central Illinois
A Critique of Some Recent North American Mortuary Studies
Further Light on Carbon Isotopes and Hopewell Agriculture
The Archaeo-Ethnology of Hunter-Gatherers or the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record in Archaeology
Archaeology as Anthropology
Archaeology under a Microscope
Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology
Grave Injustice
The Excavation of American Indian Burial Sites
Becoming American or Becoming Indian
Archaeology of the Body
Controversy and Conflict
Memory, Identity, and NAGPRA in the Northeastern United States
American Archaeology and General Anthropological Theory
An Anthropology of Repatriation
Hunter-gatherer burials and the creation of persistent places in southeastern Australia
Diet and social status during the La Tène period in Bohemia
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |