Alexandra Livarda - The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion

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Front cover : Top: Reconstruction of wooden bier, containing a body, flower and other offerings within a hide wrapped with rope from the late Bronze Age funerary cave site Cova des Pas, Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Alex Sol

Bottom : Individual on a wooden bier buried in the late Bronze Age funerary cave site Cova des Pas, Minorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Alex Sol

Contents

Alexandra Livarda, Richard Madgwick and Santiago Riera Mora

Alexandra Livarda and Richard Madgwick

Jo McKenzie

Santiago Riera Mora, Gabriel Servera-Vives, Lloren Picornell-Gelabert, Manon Cabanis, Marzia Boi and Yannick Miras

Rhea Brettell, Eline Schotsmans, William Martin, Ben Stern and Carl Heron

Valentina Caracuta and Girolamo Fiorentino

Pirmin Koch, rni Akeret, Sabine Deschler-Erb, Heide Hster-Plogmann, Christine Pmpin and Lucia Wick

Rena Veropoulidou and Daphne Nikolaidou

Maria Pilar Iborra Eres

James Morris

Letizia Silvestri, Mario F. Rolfo, Micaela Angle, Robin Skeates and Leonardo Salari

Lloren Picornell-Gelabert, Manuel Calvo Trias, Jaume Garcia Rossell, Gabriel Servera-Vives, Giovanna Bosi, Jordi Nadal Lorenzo, Santiago Riera Mora and Ethel Allu

Tnno Jonuks and Eve Ranname

Julia Best and Jacqui Mulville

Brian Hayden

List of Tables, Figures and Plates

Tables

Figures

Plates

List of Contributors

AKERET, RNI Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Spalenring 145, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland.

ALLU, ETHEL Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution University Rovira i Virgili. Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), CP 43007, Tarragona, Spain.

ANGLE, MICAELA Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio, Via Pompeo Magno 2, I-00192, Rome, Italy.

BEST, JULIA Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK.
School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK.

BOI, MARZIA Department of Biology-Botany, University of the Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa Km 7.5, CP07122, Palma, Mallorca, Spain.

BOSI, GIOVANNA Laboratorio di Palinologia a Paleobotanica - Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Universit degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Viale Caduti in Guerra 127 41121, Modena, Italy.

BRETTELL, RHEA Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK.

CABANIS, MANON INRAP. Institut National de Recherches Archologiques Prventives, 13 bis rue Pierre Boulanger, 63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France. CNRS, Universit Clermont Auvergne, GEOLAB, F-63000, ClermontFerrand, France.

CALVO TRIAS, MANUEL ArqueoUIB Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands. Carretera de Valldemossa Km. 7,5, CP 07122, Palma, Spain.

CARACUTA, VALENTINA Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology (L.A.P.), University of Salento, Via Birago 64, 73100, Lecce, Italy.

DESCHLER-ERB, SABINE Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Spalenring 145, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland.

FIORENTINO, GIROLAMO Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology (L.A.P.), University of Salento, Via Birago 64, 73100, Lecce, Italy.

GARCIA ROSSELL, JAUME ArqueoUIB Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands. Carretera de Valldemossa Km. 7,5, CP 07122, Palma, Spain.

HAYDEN, BRIAN Anthropology Department, University of British Columbia, 213-6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada.

HERON, CARL Department of Scientific Research, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, UK.

HSTER PLOGMANN, HEIDE Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Spalenring 145, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland.

IBORRA ERES, MARIA PILAR C/Conde Olocau, 15. 46003, Valencia, Spain.

JONUKS, TNNO Department of Folkloristics, Estonian Literary Museum, Vanemuise 42, 51003, Tartu, Estonia.

KOCH, PIRMIN University of Cologne/D and Kantonsarchologie St.Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 23, CH-9001 St. Gallen, Switzerland .

LIVARDA, ALEXANDRA Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.

MADGWICK, RICHARD School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK.

MARTIN, WILLIAM Chemistry and Forensic Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK.

MCKENZIE, JO Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK.

MIRAS, YANNICK CNRS, Universit Clermont Auvergne, GEOLAB, F-63000 ClermontFerrand, France.

MORRIS, JAMES School of Forensic and Applied Science, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK.

MULVILLE, JACQUI School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK.

NADAL LORENZO, JORDI SERP. Seminary of Prehistoric Studies and Research, Department of History and Archaeology, Section Prehistory and Archaeology. University of Barcelona. C/Montalegre 6. 08001, Barcelona.

NIKOLAIDOU, DAPHNE Austrian Archaeological Institut (sterreichisches Archologisches Institut), Franz Klein-Gasse 1, A-1190, Vienna, Austria.

PICORNELL-GELABERT, LLOREN Department of Historical Sciences and Theory of Art, University of the Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa Km 7.5, CP 07122, Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
Archozoologie, Archobotanique: socits, pratiques et environnements, UMR 7209 of the CNRS Musum National dHistoire Naturelle Sorbonne Universits. 55 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.

PMPIN, CHRISTINE Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Spalenring 145, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland.

RANNAME, EVE Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Jakobi 2, 51014 Tartu, Estonia; BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, Environment Building, Wentworth Way, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom.

RIERA MORA, SANTIAGO Seminary of Prehistoric Studies and Research Department of History and Archaeology, Section Prehistory and Archaeology. University of Barcelona. C/Montalegre 6. 08001, Barcelona.