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Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate.

Neolithic period --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Europe --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities

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The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the archaeological study of cremation has much to offer. Cremation is a fascinating and widespread theme and entry-point in the exploration of the variability of mortuary practices among past societies. Seeking to challenge simplistic narratives of cremation in the past and present, the studies in this volume seek to confront and explore the challenges of interpreting the variability of cremation by contending with complex networks of modern allusions and imaginings of cremations past and present and ongoing debates regarding how we identify and interpret cremation in the archaeological record. Using a series of original case studies, the book investigates the archaeological traces of cremation in a varied selection of prehistoric and historic contexts from the Mesolithic to the present in order to explore cremation from a practice-oriented and historically situated perspective.

Human remains (Archaeology) --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Cremation --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Cremation. --- Feuerbestattung. --- History. --- Bioarchaeology

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General palaeontology --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Archéologie --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Methodology --- Guides, manuels, etc. --- Méthodologie --- Guides, manuels, etc --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Archéologie --- Méthodologie --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Bioarchaeology

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It is estimated that in prehistoric societies children comprised at least forty to sixty-five percent of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles (however they would have codified these kin relationships) who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children and adolescents around them. The economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children are often understudied because they are assumed to be unknowable or negligible. 0Drawing on the most recent data from the cognitive sciences and from the ethnographic, fossil, archaeological, and primate records, 'Growing Up in the Ice Age' challenges these assumptions. This volume is a timely and evidence-based look at the lived lives of Paleolithic children and the communities of which they were a part. By rendering the "invisible" children visible, readers will gain a new understanding not only of the contributions that children have made to the biological and cultural entities we are today but also of the Paleolithic period as whole.

Paleolithic period --- Eolithic period --- Old Stone age --- Palaeolithic period --- Stone age --- Children --- Social archaeology --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Paleontology --- Pleiocene Epoch --- Pliocene Epoch --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Ice Age --- Pleistocene Epoch --- Social conditions --- Methodology

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Bioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval Europe presents evidence and documents forms of violence and injuries in skeletal remains. Its contributions address this topic for the first time in a chronologically specific arc (Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages) and a wide geographical area (Greece, England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain). The diversity of examples of interpersonal violence, collective violence (mass graves), punishments, and ante-mortem and post-mortem injuries provides an important data set concerning the degree and dimension of violence and injuries in post-Roman Europe. Osteoarchaeological and bioarchaeological analysis of human remains, together with exhaustive studies of corpses, from the time of burial to exhumation, makes it possible to identify burials as ‘non-normative', ‘anomalous’ or ‘deviant’ burials that may be the result of violence, including evidence of punishments and executions.

Human remains (Archaeology) --- Violence --- Wounds and injuries --- History --- Europe --- Archaeology, Medieval. --- Physical anthropology and history --- History. --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Human beings --- Injuries --- Trauma, Physical --- Wounds --- Surgical emergencies --- Traumatology --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology)