The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe
Sarah Tarlow, "The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe"
English | ISBN: 3110439727 | 2015 | 237 pages | PDF | 31 MB
English | ISBN: 3110439727 | 2015 | 237 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing social relationships, values and aspirations.
In the last decades, the intensive urban development and a widespread legal requirement to undertake archaeological excavation of historical sites has led to a massive increase in the number of post-medieval graveyards and burial places that have been subjected to archaeological investigation. The archaeology of the more recent periods, which are comparatively well documented, is no less interesting and important an area of study than prehistoric periods.
Read more