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)
Removing the Dead in Prepalatial Crete: A Case for Endocannibalism
Kathryn Soar (University of Nottingham, UK)
Bodies of evidence: human remains in funerary practices
Elisa Perego (UCL; elisaperego78@yahoo.it) and Veronica Tamorri (University of Durham; veronicatamorri@googlemail.com)