Animating the Dead

Animating the Dead

An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney

Downes, Jane; Richards, Colin

Casemate Publishers

02/2025

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1. Introduction to Orkney funerary traditions in the Orcadian Chalcolithic and Bronze Age
2. Animating the Orcadian Chalcolithic and Bronze Age
3. The burial cist in 3rd and 2nd millennium BC Orkney
4. Of fabulous wealth: Knowes of Trotty, Mainland, Orkney
5. Clustering the dead: Linga Fiold, Mainland, Orkney
6. Of place and tradition: Gitterpitten, Varme Dales and Vestra Fiold, Mainland, Orkney
7. The possibilities of cremation
8. Re-assembling the dead of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Orkney
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Archaeological Method & Theory;Biological Sciences;Osteoarchaeology;Biological Anthropology;European Prehistory;Britain & Ireland;Orkney Barrows Project;Linga Fiold;Gitterpitten;Rendall;Varme Dale;Vestra Fiold;Sandwick;Bronze Age;Orkney; barrow; burial practices; Orkney; cremation; mortuary practices; funerary architecture; excavation; barrow cemeteries; Linga Fiold; Gitterpitten; Varne Dale; Vestrafiold; Knowes of Trotty; grave goods; early Neolithic; cist excavations; cist curial tradition; Chalcolithic; Orcadian; Britain; north-west Europe