artefacts & cemeteries
What can we learn about social organisation, familial ties, identitiy and belief?
What temporal and spatial patterns can be seen in the use of objects?
Can different cultural and social strategies be identified from the ways in which graves were created and furnished?
How were cemeteries composed over time?
Are different rites attached to age, gender, status, or ethnicity?
We will undertake a comprehensive assessment of catalogues and collections in order to map and explore funerary and artefact data across cemeteries.
What temporal and spatial patterns can be seen in the use of objects?
Can different cultural and social strategies be identified from the ways in which graves were created and furnished?
How were cemeteries composed over time?
Are different rites attached to age, gender, status, or ethnicity?
We will undertake a comprehensive assessment of catalogues and collections in order to map and explore funerary and artefact data across cemeteries.
The artefactsArtefact assemblages will give clues to identity, status, and family groups.
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the gravesThe form and orientations of the grave, the position of the body, ad the type of grave marker can tell us about different burial rites.
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the cemeteriesThe size, extent, and orgnaisation of the cemeteries will reveal cultural and social strategies.
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