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

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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.

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Martin A. Guggisberg
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.

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