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Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity
Volume 1: Thematic Perspectives
Series: - Late Antique Archaeology, Volume: 13/1
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Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284â650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, the movements of relics, and the political significance of cemeteries. The nature and fate of statue monuments is explored, as memorials to individuals. Authors also compare the destruction or preservation of tombs in relation to other buildings. Finally, the city itself is considered as a place of collective memory, where meanings were long maintained, via a study of spoliation.
Luke Lavan, Ph.D (2001), is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent. He is the series editor of Late Antique Archaeology, has directed excavation and survey at Ostia, and author of Public Space in the Late Antique City (2020).
Volume 1
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Perspectives and Opportunities
âLuke Lavan
Bioarchaeology
Recent Bioarchaeological Research on Early Medieval Cemeteries in Italy
âAlexandra ChavarrÃa Arnau, Leonardo Lamanna and Maurizio Marinato
Treatment of the Body
âTo Make the Unseen Seenâ: Organic Residue Analysis of Late Roman Grave Deposits
âRhea C. Brettell, Eline M. J. Schotsmans, William H. C. Martin, Ben Stern and Carl P. Heron
The Colour of Death: Colour Symbolism and Burial in Roman Britain
âChloe Clark
Funeral Processions in Late Antiquity
âLuke Lavan
Mausolea
Late Roman âMausoleaâ in Hispania
âJosé Miguel Noguera Celdrán and Javier Arce
Mausolea in North-West Europe: the Transition from the Roman to Late Antique Periods
âChristopher J. Sparey-Green
Late Roman Mausolea in Pannonia
âZsolt Magyar
Mausolea in Late Antique Italy
âMark J. Johnson
Changing Funerary Landscapes in Late Antiquity: Mausolea in North Africa
âJulia Nikolaus
Funerary Landscapes
Funerary Landscapes in Catalonia (3rdâ6th c. AD)
âJudit Ciurana Prast
The Late Antique Funerary Landscape of Rome: 3rd to 4th c. AD
âBarbara E. Borg
Burying the Saints Next to the Common Dead: the Burial Habits of the Christian Elite in the 4th c. and the First Translations of Relics
âEfthymios Rizos
Topography and Ideology: Contested Episcopal Elections and Suburban Cemeteries in Late Antique Rome
âSamuel Cohen
Other Memorials: Statue Monuments
The Archaeology of Late Antique Statue Monuments
âLuke Lavan
The Many Lives of the Statue Bases of Lepcis Magna
âFrancesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo
Tombs and Spolia in City Walls
Memorial and Oblivion in Late Antiquity: the Testimony of Spolia in City Walls
âLuke Lavan
The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments within Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the West
âDouglas Underwood
The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments in Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the East
âNick Mishkovsky
Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 1: Africa and the East
âLuke Lavan
Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 2: The West
âDouglas Underwood and Luke Lavan
Spolia and Civic Memory
Urban Landscapes from Architectural Reuse: Spolia, Chronology and Civic Memory in Late Antique Ephesus
âLuke Lavan
Abstracts in French
Volume 2
AcknowledgementsList of Contributors
Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay
Part 1: Thematic and Regional Studies
âSolinda Kamani and Luke Lavan
Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay
Part 2: Key Sites
â Solinda Kamani
Regional Perspectives
Aspects of Late Roman Burial Practice in Southern Britain
âPaul Booth
Burial in Late Antiquity: Recent Evidence from Londinium
âVictoria Ridgeway and Sadie Watson
New Cemetery Evidence from Late Roman Canterbury: the Former Halletâs Garage Site in Context
âElizabeth Duffy, Adrian Gollop and Jake Weekes
Levis aesto terra â Early Christian Elite Burials from St. Maximin, Trier (Germany)
âNicole Reifarth, Hiltrud Merten, Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen, Jens Amendt, Ina Vanden Berghe, Carl Heron, Julian Wiethold, Ursula Drewello, Rainer Drewello and Lukas Clemens
Funerary Patterns in Late Roman Cities (3rd to 7th c.): Reviewing Archaeological Data in Northern Italy
âAlexandra ChavarrÃa Arnau
Funerary Practices in Late Antique Sardinia: Overview and Potential
âMauro Puddu
Burial Rites in Byzantine Sicily â New Approaches and Discoveries
âValentina Caminneci, Maria Serena Rizzo and Martin Carver
Late Roman Burials in Slovenia
âKaja Stemberger
Death at the Edge of Empire: Burial Practices in the Province of Scythia (4thâ7th c. AD)
âCiprian CreÈu and Andrei D. Soficaru
Burial and Society in the Greek World During Late Antiquity
âJoseph L. Rife
From Necropoleis to Koimetéria: Burial practices in Late Antique (late 3rdâ7th c.) Sagalassos, South-West Turkey
Sam Cleymans and Peter Talloen
The Archaeology of Late Antique Mortuary Practices in the Near East
âÃdám Bollók
The Archaeology of Death and Burial in Late Antique Egypt
âElisabeth OâConnell
Abstracts in French
Indices
Anyone interested in the funerary archaeology, memory, spolia, Christianisation, and history of late antique society.