Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney

Provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bronze Age round barrow construction and burial practices in Orkney, Scotland.

This book provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bronze Age round barrow construction and burial practices in Orkney, Scotland. A main focus of this research is on the act of cremation; a technology of bodily metamorphosis as articulated through complex mortuary practices, which produced a distinctive form of funerary architectu...