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Guggisberg, Martin A. and Billo-Imbach, Marta (Eds.): Burial Taphonomy and Post-Funeral Practices in Pre-Roman Italy: Problems and Perspectives. Papers of the International Workshop held at the University of Basel, January 12th, 2021, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1211

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Martin A. Guggisberg (Ed.), Marta Billo-Imbach (Ed.)

Burial Taphonomy and Post-Funeral Practices in Pre-Roman Italy

Problems and Perspectives. Papers of the International Workshop held at the University of Basel, January 12th, 2021

The volume includes papers with individual contributions by the authors dealing with taphonomic processes as well as post-funeral practices and reuse of graves, which could be determined. It is shown that besides the state of preservation, the methods of investigation are enormously important in order to be able to recognize, for example, multiple burials. Likewise, the phenomenon of a closed context, as is quickly assumed in the discovery of a grave, is not a matter of fact in the case of the examples presented. The scientific analyses and evaluations help to understand both the biological and the cultural processes that occur or are carried out after the death of an individual.

Martin A. Guggisberg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Basel and has been conducting archaeological fieldwork at the Iron Age necropolis Macchiabate near Francavilla Marittima in Calabria, Italy since 2009. His research interests include the archaeology of early elites, acculturation and cultural identity in contact zones of the Mediterranean world, Greece from Mycenaean to Archaic times, Celtic art, and Late Antiquity.

Marta Billo-Imbach is the project assistant for the research project Francavilla Marittima Macchiabate at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on Italic burials from the pre-Roman period.

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Martin A. Guggisberg, Marta Billo-Imbach
Burial Taphonomy and Post-Funeral Practices in Pre-Roman Italy – an Introduction
7-10
Vincent Varlet, Negahnaz Moghaddam
Introduction to Human Taphonomy – Human Taphonomy Begins when Life Ends
11-18
Luca Cappuccini, Giulia Peri
Alcuni casi di sepolture secondarie in Etruria: problemi di spazio e rituali funerari
19-31
Joachim Weidig
Grabritus, Tradition und Zerstörung
Überlegungen zum Umgang mit den eigenen und fremden Toten im eisenzeitlichen Apennin
33-47
Barbara Belelli Marchesini, Peter A. J. Attema, Walter B. Pantano, Paola Catalano
Landscape Processes, Taphonomy and the Reconstruction of Tomb Architecture and Mortuary Practices at Protohistoric Crustumerium (Rome)
49-63
Carmine Pellegrino, Antonella Massanova, Anna Rita Russo
Presenze/assenze, traslazioni, riduzioni: pratiche funerarie, processi tafonomici e manipolazione dei resti scheletrici nelle necropoli preromane di Pontecagnano (SA)
65-79
Matthias Hoernes
Deposits and Debris: Tomb Reuse, Secondary Deposition and Object Selection in Pre-Roman South-East Italy
81-111
Martin A. Guggisberg, Marta Billo-Imbach, Laura Rindlisbacher, Jessica Fäh, Sandra L. Pichler
Norm and Deviance in the Funerary Practices of Iron Age Francavilla Marittima, Calabria
113-128
Norma Lonoce, Serena Viva, Stefano Vassallo, Pier Francesco Fabbri
The Practice of Cremation in the Western Necropolis (7th-5th cent. B.C.) of the Greek Colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy)
129-142
Reine-Marie Bérard
Funeral or Post-Funeral Practices? Taphonomy of Grave Reuse in Archaic Megara Hyblaea
143-152

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