Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0011
Lauren Hosek
The study of deviant burials is enhanced through a social bioarchaeology perspective that incorporates multiple lines of evidence to better capture the nuances of these unusual mortuary practices and the life histories of individuals receiving such treatment. This chapter presents the range of unusual burials from an early medieval cemetery at the site of Libice nad Cidlinou in the Czech Republic. Additionally, three burials are examined in depth to explore how individual life histories might contribute to atypical mortuary treatment. The diversity revealed in terms of these individuals’ demographics and skeletal data, as well as the wide variation in burial contexts, highlights the interpretive challenges presented by multiple unusual burials at a single site. However, these burials also provide different opportunities to examine how identity, practice, and ideology might intersect at the graveside.
通过社会生物考古学的视角，结合多种证据，更好地捕捉这些不寻常的殡葬习俗的细微差别和接受这种治疗的个人的生活史，加强了对异常埋葬的研究。本章介绍了捷克共和国liice nad Cidlinou遗址的中世纪早期墓地的不同寻常的墓葬。此外，三个埋葬进行了深入研究，以探讨如何个人生活史可能有助于非典型的太平间处理。这些个体的人口统计和骨骼数据所揭示的多样性，以及埋葬背景的广泛差异，突出了在一个地点进行多个不寻常的埋葬所带来的解释挑战。然而，这些葬礼也提供了不同的机会来研究身份，实践和意识形态如何在坟墓旁交叉。
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0001
A. Scott, Tracy K Betsinger, Anastasia Tsaliki
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the historical, cultural, and contextual framework of this volume. Taking a critical view of how we define “non-normative” and “atypical” burials in archaeological research, this chapter highlights the long history and new approaches to burial practices that vary across distinct temporal and geographic landscapes. Championing a holistic approach beyond binary classifications, we argue there is an increasing need to avoid the use of limiting definitions and to recognize the continuum of variation that exists within these burial contexts. By focusing on the context of each burial and following an integrated biocultural approach, we are positioned to better interpret and understand their meaning(s). This chapter also introduces each study in the volume highlighting the significance of this collection through an array of comprehensive and critical analyses.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0002
J. Cerezo-Román
Inhumation and cremation usually are studied in isolation regardless of the fact that they may be practiced in the same culture and time period. Among the Tucson Basin Hohokam in the Prehispanic American Southwest cremation was the main funeral custom and inhumation was practiced at a very low frequency throughout the Preclassic (AD 700–1150) and Classic (AD 1150–1450/1500) periods. This chapter explores changes through time in non-normative burial customs of inhumation from ten Tucson Basin (Arizona) Hohokam archaeological sites by exploring both biological reconstruction of bodies and posthumous treatments within and between sites. Inhumations are contrasted with cremations to explore how they are related but distinct practices of remembrance, and it is argued that critical and contextualized approaches to the study of non-normative burials are necessary in order to reconstruct the complexity of funeral customs and their associated cultural significance through time. The results provide a glimpse of social variation and multiple social groups within the Tucson Basin Hohokam sites.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0006
H. Mickleburgh, M. Hoogland, Jason E. Laffoon, D. Weston, R. V. Rojas, A. V. Duijvenbode, Angus A. A. Mol
In the past few decades, researchers have increasingly come to understand that the archaeological record of the Caribbean region shows a high degree of sociocultural variation across the archipelago and through time. Funerary treatment in the precolonial and early colonial Caribbean archipelago in particular was variable, hampering assessment of potentially non-normative funerary practices. Alongside multidisciplinary contextual assessment of funerary practice, we use social network analysis to study relations within the dataset to explore other indicators of non-normative practices. This approach demonstrates that altering the scale of analysis (i.e., local vs. regional) can drastically change our concept of what can be considered non-normative. Network analysis revealed relationships within the diverse funerary patterns, including co-occurrence of uncommon modes of burial at sites, suggesting that even rare modes of burial comprised widely recognized practices.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0013
Leszek Gardeła
Excavations at early medieval cemeteries in Poland often reveal traces of mortuary behavior which deviate considerably from the normative treatment of the dead. Most of these atypical practices involved interring the corpses in prone position, laying or throwing stones on them, or cutting their heads off, but other variants have also been recorded, e.g., covering the bodies with clay or piercing them with stakes and other sharp objects. Graves of this kind have always been difficult to interpret. In the early twentieth century, Polish scholars only mentioned them briefly in their publications, without offering any detailed commentary about their possible meanings, while in the 1970s, the problematic term “anti-vampire burials” was coined, implying that these were burials of vampires. This article provides a critical overview of past and present studies on atypical burials in Poland by drawing on the results of a research project entitled Bad Death in the Early Middle Ages: Atypical Burials from Poland in a Comparative Perspective. The discussion incorporates new and previously unpublished evidence and a reassessment of archival documentation kept in a range of Polish museums and scientific institutions, which challenges the previously accepted “vampire” interpretation and sophisticates our understanding of unusual funerary phenomena.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0010
Anastasia Tsaliki
The present case investigates a burial in a kiln and its interpretations, including the probability of criminal punishment in Early Byzantine Attica. Human skeletal remains from the 4th century AD were found in a kiln at the site of Merenda, in Attica, Greece. The inhumation consisted of an individual that seemed to be cut in half and re-arranged in such a way that her upper and lower halves were deposited next to each other. Portions of a second individual, a male, were found in association. This burial can be called deviant in the sense that it is different from the usual manner of interment during Late Antiquity. Osteological and burial context analyses, together with historical sources, help to shed light on the cultural circumstances surrounding the burial.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0008
W. Więckowski, M. Giersz, R. P. Nita
During the 2010 and 2012 excavation seasons, a Polish-Peruvian team excavated a small elevated mound—the remains of a platform—located in the northern sector of Castillo de Huarmey archaeological site, unearthing relics of stone architecture and a number of burials dated to the latter part of the Early Horizon (ca. 800–100 BC). Although the entire cemetery has not been excavated, the burial pattern that emerges from burials known to date is fairly clear and seems to be consistent with that of other Early Horizon sites from the north coast of Peru. Within the group of burials from Huarmey, four are rather atypical; they differ from the overall burial pattern in terms of body arrangement, as well as the presence of possible pre-and post-depositional alterations to the remains. Two skeletons of adult individuals were deposited in a completely different manner from the others, and two children were also buried in a rather unusual way. This chapter presents these four deviant burials, describes their context, and offers possible interpretations regarding the reasons for these atypical depositions using iconographic and archaeological analogies.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0020
K. Reusch
Castration has a long and varied history across the Old World, as many different cultures created and used castrates for multiple reasons. Castrates’ physical state gave them liminal status in their societies, which made them ideal candidates for abnormal burial rites and methods, and a lack of direct heirs made it especially necessary for castrates to plan their burials before death. This often required them to join burial clubs or attempt to ensure that the executor of their will or adopted heirs would carry out the appropriate rituals. Comparing and contrasting what is known about normative and castrate burial rituals in two cultures: China and Early Modern to Modern Europe, this chapter will assess any prescribed burial rituals for castrates. It will then determine whether castrates were buried in a deviant manner for their culture, whether they actually had control over their method of burial, and whether a violation of prescribed rituals could be considered deviant burial.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0018
Takeshi Ishikawa
This chapter examines the social meaning of deviant mortuary practices from an osteoarchaeological perspective using skeletal remains from the Middle Jomon Period (ca. 3500–2500 cal BC) found at the Kusakari shell mound. The analyses focus on attributes associated with mortuary body treatments: 1) arrangements of remains, 2) body posture and direction, and 3) the location of burials within the cemetery. Although the usual body postures were dorsal during the period, one individual was laid in a prone position with an unusual body direction compared with other burials. The skeletal arrangement also revealed that the individual had been disarticulated early in the postmortem decay process; however, the remains were located within the usual cemetery area. Based on these results and the extraordinary amount of varied faunal remains in the vicinity, the deviant mortuary treatments appeared to arise from a specific social persona rather than an unusual context of death, such as drowning, suicide, warfare, or other cause.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0021
Andrew Reynolds
It is both a pleasure and a privilege to be asked to write an afterword to a collection of essays concerning a topic that for many years has lain at the core of my interests in the behavior of past societies. When, in the early 1990s, I first embarked on the study of deviant burials—and more on that particular turn of phrase in a moment—mortuary archaeology writ large had shifted in its emphasis from the descriptive and typological approaches that had typified its early development, through concerns about hierarchy and ranking, and had turned increasingly to nuanced social considerations. Life cycle and gender, illness and care, among other topics, steadily grew in importance as worthy of study. Twenty-five or so years ago, however, descriptions of people at the fringes of their respective societies were hard to find in the archaeological literature: “otherness” as a concept materialized in the burial record was largely unexplored beyond a few graphically spectacular and deeply intriguing finds, such as the northern European bog-bodies or the Andean mummified children....
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