The loved body's corruption: archaeological contributions to the study of human mortality.

The loved body's corruption: archaeological contributions to the study of human mortality. JANE DOWNES & TONY POLLARD Tony Pollard is an internationally renowned archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of conflict. He is Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at Glasgow University. (ed.). The loved body'scorruption: archaeological contributions to the study of humanmortality. xiv+224 pages, illustrated. 1999. Glasgow: Cruithne Press;0-873448-06-6 paperback 16.50 [pounds sterling]. The loved body's corruption comprises three general papers anda dozen case studies (the latter mostly European). It is lively: gravesby the ocean in Scotland and St Kilda and burials at sea (POLLARD), andthe fate of Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic (X-rateablephotos of frozen corpses!); the, Quaker cemetery at Kingston-on-Thames;Iron Age infanticide infanticide(ĭnfăn`təsīd)[Lat.,=child murder], the putting to death of the newborn with the consent of the parent, family, or community. Infanticide often occurs among peoples whose food supply is insecure (e.g. in Scandinavia and landscape archaeology of IronAge square barrows in the East Riding (B. Bevan); ethnoarchaeology Ethnoarchaeology is the ethnographic study of peoples for archaeological reasons, usually focusing on the material remains of a society, rather than its culture. Ethnoarchaeology aids archaeologists in reconstructing ancient lifeways by studying the material and non-material fromMadagascar (M. Parker Pearson) and Bali (DOWNES); disposal of victims ofstigmatized diseases; a prolegomenon pro��le��gom��e��non?n. pl. pro��le��gom��e��na1. A preliminary discussion, especially a formal essay introducing a work of considerable length or complexity.2. prolegomena (used with a sing. or pl. to technical and ethical issues indigging cemeteries of the Modern period (J. Reeve & M. Cox); andforensic excavation. Our own Deputy Editor & colleague,; contributeon the Eneolithic Brochtorff Circle, Malta. Gender is the basic theme of the next title: Dr RAUTMAN presentsfive papers on burials, nine on iconography (rock art, ceramics, seals,papyri etc.) and a couple of methodological pieces (RAUTMAN & E.Talalay and L. Meskell). Eight are on the Mediterranean & MiddleEast (including M.J. Becker on Etruscan false teeth of gold and M.M. Leeon the Minoan snake goddess), five on North America (including A.B.Kehoe on Mississippian weaving), and one on European Upper Palaeolithicfigurines Naked truths is now published in paperback.