funerary rituals

Unity and randomness in burial assemblages

Joanne Rowland (University of Oxford, UK)

This paper considers the relations of burial goods: to the dead, to the living and to each other. What clues do they have to people who put them there? What governed their choice of object, and was it the same for all actors? Answers to these questions have implications for the ways in which we view grave goods: as assemblages or as random groups of objects.

Social birth, social death and public belonging

Lynne McKerr and Eileen Murphy (Queen's University Belfast)

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