Archaeology: Mortuary theory

Carr, C. 1995

‘Mortuary practices: their social, philosophical-religious, circumstantial and physical deteminants’, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2:2, 105-200.

Duday, H., Le Mort, F. & Tillier, A-M. 2014

‘Archaeothanatology and funeral archaeology. Application to the study of primary single burials’, Anthropologie (1962-) 52:3 235-246.

Parker Pearson, M. 1982

‘Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethno-archaeological study’ in I. Hodder (ed.) Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 99-113.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract