Behaviour and belief in mortuary ritual:
attitudes to the disposal of the dead in southern Britain 3500bc-AD43

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents

• List of figures
• List of tables in text
• List of statistical tables

• 1.1 General structure of the research method

• 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

• 3.1 Radiocarbon Timescale and Calibration
• 3.2 Radiocarbon Date Tables
• 3.3 Period summaries

• 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

• 5.1 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

• 6.1 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

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Possible pre-Disposal Themes
• 7.3 Possible Disposal Themes
• 7.4 Possible post-Disposal Themes
• 7.5 Possible General Themes

• 8.1 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

• 9.1 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

• 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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