Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain

by Dennis Harding and D.W. Harding

Archaeologists have long acknowledged the absence of a regular and recurrent burial rite in the British Iron Age, and have looked to rites such as cremation and scattering of remains to explain the minimal impact of funerary practices on the archaeological record. Pit-burials or the deposit of
disarticulated bones in settlements have been dismissed as casual disposal or the remains of social outcasts.

In Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199687560
• ISBN13: 9780199687565
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"