The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe: Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, "The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe: Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World"
English | ISBN: 0367880598 | 2020 | 318 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 0367880598 | 2020 | 318 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art.
The human remains themselves provide information on biological parameters of life, such as sex, biological age, and health status. Objects associated with the body in the grave and funerary practices give further insights on how people of the early Iron Age understood life and death, themselves, and their place in the world.
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