Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain

Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780199687565
ISBN-13 : 0199687560
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Book Synopsis Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain by : Dennis William Harding

Download or read book Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain written by Dennis William Harding and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Harding examines the deposition of Iron Age human and animal remains in Britain and challenges the assumption that there should have been any regular form of cemetery in prehistory, arguing that the dead were more commonly integrated into settlements of the living than segregated into dedicated cemeteries.


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