Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
The crematory funerary rites practiced by those living in parts of mainland Britain during the first millennium AD included burning complete or parts of animals on the pyre. This thesis highlights the potential for archaeozoological analysis of faunal pyre goods using assemblages from the first m...
Main Author: | Worley, Fay L. |
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Other Authors: | Bond, Julie M. |
Language: | en |
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University of Bradford
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4282 |
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