Incluye bibliografías e índice.

Beautiful things and bones of desire: emerging issues in the archaeology of death and burial / Liv Nilsson Stutz and Sarah Tarlow -- Approaches to death and burial: cultural history, race, and peoples / Adam Stout -- Did prehistoric man bury his dead?: early debates on Palaeolithic burials in a national context / Nathalie Richard -- Death, burial, and social representation / Robert Chapman -- Death and the cultural entanglements of the experienced, the learned, the expressed, the contested, and the imagined / Susan Kus -- The nature of the evidence: The bioarchaeology of health and well-being: its contribution to understanding the past / Charlotte Roberts -- The use of DNA analysis in the archaeology of death and burial / Barbara Bramanti -- Stable isotope analysis of humans / Gunilla Eriksson -- Cremation: excavation, analysis and interpretation of material from cremation-related contexts / Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Contextualizing grave goods: theoretical perspectives and methodological implications / Fredrik Ekengren -- The human experience of death across cultural contexts: death, memory, and material culture: catalytic commemoration and the cremated dead / Howard Williams -- African perspectives on death, burial, and mortuary archaeology / David Edwards -- The place of veneration in early South Asian Buddhism / Lars Fogelin -- The archaeology of death and burial in the Islamic world / Andrew Petersen -- Burial of the Christian dead in the later middle ages / Deirdre O’Sullivan -- The unburied dead / Estella Weiss-Krejci -- Upper Palaeolithic mortuary practices in Eurasia: a critical look at the burial record / Julien Riel-Salvatore and Claudine Gravel-Miguel -- Power and society: Mesolithic Europe / Chantal Conneller -- Archaeological study of mortuary practices in the eastern United States / James Brown -- The living and the dead in later prehistoric Iberia / Robert Chapman -- The powerful dead of the Inca / Peter Kaulicke -- Land ownership and landscape belief: introduction and contexts / Joshua Wright -- Megaliths in north-west Europe: the cosmology of sacred landscapes / Magdalena S. Midgley -- Creating death: an archaeology of dying / John Robb -- Treating bodies: transformative and communicative practices /Alexander Gramsch -- Preserving the body / Melanie Giles -- Cremations in culture and cosmology / Terje Oestigaard -- Identities in transformation : identities, funerary rites, and the mortuary process / Chris Fowler -- Death and gender / Joanna Sofaer and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen -- Ancient identities: age, gender, and ethnicity in ancient Greek burials / Gillian Shepherd -- Ethnicity and gender in Roman funerary commemoration: case studies from the empire’s frontiers / Maureen Carroll -- Engendering ancestors through death ritual in ancient China / Alice Yao -- Death, emotion, and the household among the late Moche / Erica Hill -- Belief and the archaeology of death / Sarah Tarlow -- Insights into early mortuary practices of Homo / Erella Hovers and Anna Belfer-Cohen -- Equipping and stripping the dead: a case study on the procurement, compilation, arrangement, and fragmentation of grave inventories in New Kingdom Thebes / Claudia Näser -- The ethics and politics of burial archaeology : “Sapient trouble-tombs”?: archaeologists’ moral obligations to the dead / Geoffrey Scarre -- Looting matters: early Bronze Age cemeteries of Jordan’s southeast Dead Sea Plain in the past and present / Morag M. Kersel and Meredith S. Chesson -- How ancients become ammunition: politics and ethics of the human skeleton / Joe Watkins -- In search of others: the history and legacy of “race” collections / Cressida Fforde -- Repatriation, reburial, and biological research in Australia: rhetoric and practice / Colin Pardoe -- The archaeology and material culture of modern military death / Layla Renshaw -- The exhumation of civilian victims of conflict and human rights abuses: political, ethical, and theoretical considerations / Layla Renshaw -- Contested burials: the dead as witnesses, victims, and tools / Liv Nilsson Stutz.