Module code: ARC7036-B
The module will cover archaeological approaches to Funerary evidence, considering theoretical perspectives and their role in interpretation of past societies. A range of topics will be explored, such as ‘what is death’, dealing with anthropology of death, grief and mourning, grave goods and how they are used in interpretations, preserved bodies, deviant burials, ethics in the use and display of the dead. The module will include a variety of case studies drawing on the research expertise at the University of Bradford, such as the earliest burials in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, increasing sedentism and the early cemeteries in the Mesolithic and Neolithic, rise of the individual in the Bronze Age in Britain, complexity in the Iron Age in Europe, early Medieval identities and influence of Christianity, and the Victorian period.
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