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Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables in text
• List of statistical tables
• 1.0 The starting point of the research: initial propositions
  • 1.1 General structure of the research method
• 2.0 Other influences affecting the area of study
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Attitudes to data and methods
  • 2.3 Late 18th century and 19th century
  • 2.4 Summary for 20th century: 1900-1960
  • 2.5 Summary for 20th century: 1960-2000
  • 2.6 Three brief case studies
• 3.0 Dating notation, chronology and terminology
  • 3.1 Radiocarbon Timescale and Calibration
  • 3.2 Radiocarbon Date Tables
  • 3.3 Period summaries
• 4.0 Patterns in individual foci of analysis
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Disposal locations
  • 4.3 Monument characteristics
  • 4.4 Monument orientation
  • 4.5 Body orientation
  • 4.6 Rite incidence
  • 4.7 Disposal method
  • 4.8 Sex incidence
  • 4.9 Burial incidence
  • 4.10 Age incidence
  • 4.11 Personal grave goods
  • 4.12 Animal associations
  • 4.13 Domestic refuse
  • 4.14 Single and multiple disposal modes
  • 4.15 Physical burial containers
  • 4.16 Observations, Issues and Questions
• 5.0 Patterns among foci of analysis in each period
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The Earlier Neolithic
  • 5.3 The Neolithic - Bronze Age Interface
  • 5.4 The Bronze Age
  • 5.5 The Iron Age
  • 5.6 The Continental Transition
  • 5.7 Observations, Issues and Questions
• 6.0 Period and area studies with special attention to disposal method, ritual, location and associations
  • 6.1 Moving to detail
  • 6.2 Coding Levels
  • 6.3 Soft Analysis
  • 6.4 Disposal Mode as the Entry Point to Commentary
  • The Earlier Neolithic
    • 6.5 In the South West
    • 6.6 In the South
    • 6.7 In the South East
    • 6.8 Observations, Issues and Questions
    • The detailed picture
    • Summary by area for Earlier Neolithic
  • The Neolithic - Bronze Age Interface
    • 6.9 In the South West
    • 6.10 In the South
    • 6.11 In the South East
    • 6.12 Observations, Issues and Questions
    • The detailed picture
  • The Bronze Age
    • 6.13 In the South West
    • 6.14 In the South
    • 6.15 In the South East
    • 6.16 Observations, Issues and Questions
    • The detailed picture
  • The Iron Age
    • 6.17 In the South West
    • 6.18 In the South
    • 6.19 In the South East
    • 6.20 Observations, Issues and Questions
    • The detailed picture
  • The Continental Transition
    • 6.21 In the South West
    • 6.22 In the South
    • 6.23 In the South East
    • 6.24 Observations, Issues and Questions
    • The detailed picture
• 7.0 The themes emerging from the evidence
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Possible pre-Disposal Themes
  • 7.3 Possible Disposal Themes
  • 7.4 Possible post-Disposal Themes
  • 7.5 Possible General Themes
• 8.0 Disposal as a rite of passage: the anthropological perspective
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Process in Mortuary Ritual: change, transition and re-establishment
  • 8.3 The Elements of Process: activity before death
  • 8.4 The Elements of Process: primary disposal activity
  • 8.5 The Elements of Process: secondary disposal activity
  • 8.6 The Elements of Process: post-disposal activity
  • 8.7 Changing Emphases in the Elements of Mortuary Ritual and Links with other Aspects of Societal Behaviour
• 9.0 Attitudes to disposal of the dead 3500bc-AD43
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 The Nature and Structure of the Method
  • 9.3 The Final Research Propositions and Hypotheses for Testing
    • Proposition 1
    • Proposition 2
    • Proposition 3
    • Proposition 4
    • Proposition 5
    • Proposition 6
    • Proposition 7
    • Proposition 8
    • Proposition 9
    • Proposition 10
    • Proposition 11
    • Proposition 12
    • Proposition 13
    • Proposition 14
    • Note on propositions 12 - 14
  • 9.4 The Concluding Picture of Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead in Southern Britain over 3500bc-AD43
• 10.0 Future research areas
• Acknowledgements
• Research methods

Databases

• Gazetteer of sites
  • Background to the Gazetteer
  • Codes list
• Bibliography
• Journals used in the course of research

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