Across the globe, desires for independence and robust national identifications are tied to
cultural differences and memories of ancestral sovereignty. In European countries like Italy …

Cremation is a complex mortuary practice, involving a number of activities of the living
towards the dead before, during, and after the destruction of the bodily soft tissues by fire …

Objectives This study aims to increase the rate of correctly sexed calcined individuals from
archaeological and forensic contexts. This is achieved by evaluating sexual dimorphism of …

Changes in funerary practices are key to the understanding of social transformations of past
societies. Over the course of the Nordic Bronze Age, funerary practices changed from …

Archaeological studies of belief, ideology and commemorative strategies in Ireland, and
elsewhere in Europe, neglect the continuation of cremation far beyond the supposed fifth …

Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern
folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the …

When one thinks about the role and uses of fire in relation to mortuary archaeology,
evidence concerning the practice of cremation understandably dominates the literature …

This theoretical analysis of ritual, religion and processes of holiness and Indo-
Europeanisation examines how celestial and terrestrial perspectives are united in functional …

After publishing Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism–Comparative Cosmol ogies and
Centuries of Cosmic Consumption (Kaliff & Oestigaard 2017) last year, we realised that the …

Bioarchaeology covers the history and general theory of the field plus the recovery and
laboratory treatment of human remains. Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains in …