Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age
This paper concerns post-depositional manipulations of burials at two Stone Age sites in Southern Sweden: the Late Mesolithic Skateholm and Middle Neolithic Ajvide. A distinction is made between non-aggressive and aggressive manipulations of graves and dead bodies. Fine-grained horizontal stratigrap...
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| description | This paper concerns post-depositional manipulations of burials at two Stone Age sites in Southern Sweden: the Late Mesolithic Skateholm and Middle Neolithic Ajvide. A distinction is made between non-aggressive and aggressive manipulations of graves and dead bodies. Fine-grained horizontal stratigraphies make it possible to associate each category with different phases of occupation. It is suggested that aggressive manipulations are generally the result of social stress during periods of hybridisation between different groups and traditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1c532dac9074fa8a6ee0729f73efbfa2023-01-18T09:21:14ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922010-12-013710.4312/dp.37.2Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone AgeFredrik Fahlander0Deptartment of Archaeology, Stockholm UniversityThis paper concerns post-depositional manipulations of burials at two Stone Age sites in Southern Sweden: the Late Mesolithic Skateholm and Middle Neolithic Ajvide. A distinction is made between non-aggressive and aggressive manipulations of graves and dead bodies. Fine-grained horizontal stratigraphies make it possible to associate each category with different phases of occupation. It is suggested that aggressive manipulations are generally the result of social stress during periods of hybridisation between different groups and traditions.https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1960SkateholmAjvideBurialpost-manipulationhybridisation |
| spellingShingle | Fredrik Fahlander Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age Documenta Praehistorica Skateholm Ajvide Burial post-manipulation hybridisation |
| title | Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age |
| title_full | Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age |
| title_fullStr | Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age |
| title_full_unstemmed | Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age |
| title_short | Messing with the dead: post-depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age |
| title_sort | messing with the dead post depositional manipulations of burials and bodies in the south scandinavian stone age |
| topic | Skateholm Ajvide Burial post-manipulation hybridisation |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1960 |
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