The Space and Place of Death

by Helaine Silverman

Archaeologists typically study death from the perspective of mortuary patterns, devising classifications of disposal facilities and their dead inhabitants along parameters such as technique and materials of tomb construction, position and orientation of the deceased, and paleobiology of the interred populations. From this information a society's organization and level of sociopolitical complexity is reconstructed. Less common among archaeologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193130307X
• ISBN13: 9781931303071
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.8"