The Archaeology of Death and Burial (Texas a & M University Anthropology Series, No. 3) (Hardcover)

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The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to death and the afterlife, but also about their way of life, their social organisation and their view of the world. This ambitious new book reviews the latest research in this huge and important field, and describes the sometimes controversial interpretations that have led to rapid advances in our understanding of life and death in the distant past. It provides a unique overview and synthesis of one of the most revealing fields of research into the past, It creates a context for several of archaeology's most breath-taking discoveries, from Tutankhamen to the Ice Man, and will find a keen market among archaeologists, historians and others who have a professional interest in, or general curiosity about, death and burial. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Dr Michael Parker Pearson is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, which specialises in this field. He has also written 'The Red Slave' for Sutton Publishing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Texas a & M Univ Pr; illustrated edition edition (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890969264
• ISBN-13: 978-0890969267
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,940,681 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Survey of World Funerary Practices, October 8, 2000

By	Kenneth Hennrick (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews

Written as a great guide to world funerary practices for undergraduates and the curious layperson, Parker Pearson's, "The Archaeology of Death and Burial" presents excellent traditionalist, processualist, and post-processualist theories and empiracal evidence of death archaeology worldwide.