Deviant burial (Archaeology)

Changing Patterns of Violence at Post-Meroitic Qustul and Ballana, Part One: The Humans

by Rachael Dann

Published in: Der Antike Sudan: Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Vol 18. 189-200

Changing Patterns of Violence at Qustul and Ballana. Part Two: The Animals

by Rachael Dann

Published in: Der Antike Sudan: Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Vol 19. 111-120.

Disability and Age Expectations in Romano-British Child Burials

by William Southwell-Wright

In M. Carroll and E-J Graham (eds.). Infant Health and Death in Roman Italy and Beyond. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series (forthcoming 2013).

Gefesselt ins Grab. In: Archäologie in Deutschland 6/2010, 56.

by Eric Müller

Gardeła L., Kajkowski K. (in press) Motywy przez wieki, Archeologia Żywa (forthcoming June 2012)

by Leszek Gardela

Kajkowski K., Gardeła L. (in press) Międzynarodowe Spotkania Interdyscyplinarne Motywy Przez Wieki. Motyw głowy w perspektywie porównawczej, Pomniki Dawnego Prawa 17 (forthcoming 2012)

by Leszek Gardela

Burial Variation in the Southern Ohio Valley: Thoughts on Posture and Place

by Cheryl Claassen

considers flesh burials only--all flexed positions, extended burials, sandstone slab burials, torso twisted burials.
considers burial places--shell mound, bluff top, sink, pond, rockshelter, cave

Duma P., Śmierć samobójcza w mieście przedindustrialnym na przykładzie Wrocławia [Selbstmord in vorindustrieller Stadt am Beispiel Breslaus], Roczniki Historyczne, t. 77, 2011, s. 149-168.

by Paweł Duma

Englum 11: Restanten van rituelen

by Annet Nieuwhof

Published in: De leege Wier van Englum; Archeologisch onderzoek in het Reitdiepgebied (= Jaarverslagen van de Vereniging voor Terpenonderzoek 91) 2008.

Anatomy of a Cargo Cult: Virginity, Relic Envy, and Hallowed Boxes

by Ryan Byrne

Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus, eds. Ryan Byrne and Bernadette McNary-Zak (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) pp. 137-186

Frühmittelalterliche Sonderbestattungen in Böhmen und Mähren. Archäologie der Randgruppen?

by Ivo Stefan

Raně středověké sídliště, hromadný hrob a pohřebiště na Budči. Ke vztahu archeologie a „událostní historie“- The Early Medieval Settlement, Mass Grave and Burial Grounds at Budeč (Na Týnici Site). Archaeological and “Event History” Perspective

by Ivo Stefan

Bohemia, Early Middle Ages, Budeč, mass grave, burial grounds, special burials, military, dendrological analysis

The study offers a comprehensive evaluation of the systematic archaeological research at the Na Týnici site in close... more The study offers a comprehensive evaluation of the systematic archaeological research at the Na Týnici site in close proximity to the
Budeč fortified settlement (district of Kladno), one of the main strongholds of the early Přemyslid dynasty. Systematically studied
between 1983 and 1988, the site is interesting above all due to the discovery of a mass grave holding 33-60 individuals. This mass
grave dates to the 10th century and is probably the most extensive evidence of organized Early Medieval violence in Europe. The
mass grave is surrounded by relatively large burial grounds with numerous distinctive characteristics; both the mass grave and the
burial grounds were preceded by a smaller Early Medieval settlement. The study aims to make previously unpublished sources
available to the greatest extent and also attempts, in various ways, to incorporate the mass grave and the adjacent necropolises
into the social and historical context of the nascent Bohemian state. The xylotomic analysis of the remains of wood from graves
structures and the analysis of cinders found in the context of the Early Medieval settlement contribute to the reconstruction of the
surrounding landscape at the time of the creation of the Budeč fortified settlement.

Deviants in the North? An assessment of Anglo-Saxon deviant burial practices in the North of England

by Dominic Walker

BA Dissertation, University of Durham, 2009

An increasing body of evidence for deviant burial in the Anglo-Saxon mortuary record has been used to lend support to... more An increasing body of evidence for deviant burial in the Anglo-Saxon mortuary record has been used to lend support to an over-arching theory, which accounts for a postulated change in the treatment of socially deviant individuals. It has been posited that prior to the conversion to Christianity, Anglo-Saxon community cemeteries contained a number of deviant burials and, subsequently, such individuals were excluded from interment in community cemeteries. Many scholars seem to have accepted this theory, without being cognisant of the fact that most of the evidence that this theory is based on has been drawn from the cemeteries of Southern England. Developing a more comprehensive understanding of the mortuary record necessitates a consideration of the evidence drawn from the North of England. The assessment of deviant burials in the North indicates that a diversity in burial customs persisted following the conversion to Christianity and throughout the Scandinavian settlement. This may have been the result of a distinct political climate in the Danelaw. As such, the observation that a particular inhumation deviates from the prevailing norm of burial practices is alone insufficient to interpret that individual as having been a social deviant during life. Conversely, funerary rites may have been conducted on an individual basis, whereby the whole funerary process was intended to memorialise one individual. This process would be indicative of their inclusion within their respective community.

The dissertation includes a comprehensive gazetteer of Northern burial sites that include 'deviant' burials, making extensive use of grey literature. Many researchers may find this useful.

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La utilización sepulcral de las cuevas en época visigoda: los casos de Las Penas, La Garma y El Portillo del Arenal (Cantabria)

by José Ángel Hierro Gárate

Versión reducida y actualizada del trabajo de Máster presentado en 2008 y que está colgado más abajo. Published in Munibe (Antropologia-Arkeologia) 62, 2011, pp. 351-402

El hallazgo de materiales de época visigoda en el interior de cuevas de la península ibérica es conocido desde antiguo... more El hallazgo de materiales de época visigoda en el interior de cuevas de la península ibérica es conocido desde antiguo y ha sido interpretado de diferentes maneras. En este trabajo se analizan los tres ejemplos más significativos del registro arqueológico cántabro y se comparan con otros de Cantabria y del resto del territorio del Reino Visigodo para establecer una serie de características comunes. A partir de ellas se propone una nueva interpretación: el uso de algunas cuevas como lugares de enterramiento para las víctimas de alguna de las epidemias que asolaron la Península durante los siglos VII-VIII d. de C. También se esboza una línea de interpretación complementaria que relaciona esos enterramientos atípicos con el miedo a los muertos y con prácticas necrofóbicas

Identifying the origins of decapitated male skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through isotope analysis: reflections of the cosmopolitan nature of Roman York in the time of Caracalla

by Janet Montgomery

Montgomery, J., C. Knüsel & K. Tucker, (2011). Identifying the origins of decapitated male skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through isotope analysis: reflections of the cosmopolitan nature of Roman York in the time of Caracalla, in The Bioarchaeology of the Human Head: Decapitation, Decoration and Deformation, ed. M. Bonogofsky Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 141-78.

Nails for the dead: a polysemic account of an ancient funerary practice

by Silvia Alfayé

In: Gordon, R., y Marco, F., Magical practices in the Latin West, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2010.

Sit tibi terra gravis: magical-religious practices against restless dead in the Ancient World

by Silvia Alfayé

L. Zamboni, V. Zanoni, 2011, "Bones and ashes. Half-cremation practices during the 1st Millennium BC"

by Lorenzo Zamboni

published in "Pagani e Cristiani. Forme ed attestazioni di religiosità del mondo antico in Emilia", X, 2011

2008 Unusual life, unusual death and the fate of the corpse: a case study from dynastic Europe. In Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record, pp. 169-190. Edited by Eileen M. Murphy. Oxbow: Oxford

by Estella Weiss-Krejci

This article explores how deviant behaviour in life, deviant circumstances of death, and young age at death affected... more This article explores how deviant behaviour in life, deviant circumstances of death, and young age at death affected mortuary treatment among historically documented individuals from Medieval and Post-Medieval European dynasties. The study is based on an investigation of 868 individuals who are members of the Habsburg and Babenberg Dynasties or affiliated with these two houses. From this sample a group of
221 individuals as well as an additional 36 individuals, whose lives or deaths may be considered deviant, were selected for a closer investigation. The results show that ‘social deviants’ as well as people who died during warfare and in battle, victims of murder and disease, as well as young children have been afforded differential mortuary treatment. On the other hand, individuals who died during childbirth or from accidents
were usually treated according to the norm.

L. ZAMBONI, V. ZANONI, 2010, Giaciture non convenzionali in Italia settentrionale durante l’età del Ferro

by Lorenzo Zamboni

published in "Sepolture Anomale. Indagini archeologiche e antropologiche dall’epoca classica al Medioevo in Emilia Romagna", Atti della Giornata di Studi (Castelfranco Emilia, 19 dicembre 2009), a cura di M.G. Belcastro, J. Ortalli, Quaderni di Archeologia dell’Emilia Romagna 28, Firenze 2010, pp. 147-160