There are 14 books in the Studies in Funerary Archaeology series. The newest book is "And So the Tomb Remained" which came out in 2020.

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Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record

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This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries. It has long been recognised by archaeologists that certain individuals in a variety of archaeological cultures from diverse periods and locations haveā€¦
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The Archaeology of the Dead

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Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of commonā€¦

3
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England

By Jo Buckberry, Annia Cherryson,

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Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting. The last decade has seen the publication of many important cemeteries and synthetic works demonstrating that suchā€¦

4
Living through the Dead

By Maureen Carroll (editor), Jane Rempel (editor),

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This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigationsā€¦

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Living with the Dead

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Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the living and the dead. Iconography and terminology associated with the deceased reveal indistinct differences between the blessedness and malevolence and thatā€¦

6
Death and Changing Rituals

By J. Rasmus Brandt (editor), Hakon Roland (editor), Marina Prusac (editor)

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The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude toā€¦

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The Archaeology of Cremation

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Human societies have disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. However, while considerable attention has been paid to bodies that were buried, comparatively little work has been devoted to understanding the nature of cremated remains, despite their visibility through time. It has been argued that this is theā€¦

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Death Embodied

By Zoe L. Devlin (editor), Emma-Jayne Graham (editor),

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In April 1485, a marble sarcophagus was found on the outskirts of Rome. It contained the remains of a young Roman woman so well-preserved that she appeared to have only just died and the sarcophagus was placed on public view, attracting great crowds. Such a find reminds us of theā€¦

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Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times

By J. Rasmus Brandt (editor), Erika Hagelberg (editor), Gro Bjornstad (editor) , Sven Ahrens (editor)

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Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC - AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christianā€¦

10
Burial and Social Change in First Millennium BC Italy

By Elisa Perego (editor), Rafael Scopacasa (editor),

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In the first millennium BC, communities in Italy underwent crucial transformations which scholars have often subsumed under the heading of 'state formation', namely increased social stratification, the centralisation of political power and, in some cases, urbanisation. Most research has tended to approach the phenomenon of state formation and social changeā€¦

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Death as a Process

By John Pearce (editor), Jake Weekes (editor),

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The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the Roman dead, concerning both the ritualsā€¦

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Engaging with the Dead

By Jennie Bradbury (editor), Chris Scarre (editor),

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Engaging with the Dead adopts a cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead. Nineteen papers highlight the current vitality of 'death studies' and the potential of future research and discoveries. Contributorsā€¦

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Grave Disturbances

By Edeltraud Aspoeck (editor), Alison Klevnas (editor), Nils Muller-Scheessel (editor)

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Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, andā€¦

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"And So the Tomb Remained"

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Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut's wealthiest and influential families. The desire was to be interred within burial vaults rather than have their wooden coffins laid into the earth in direct contact with crushing soil burden led many prominent families to constructā€¦