John Pearce and Jake Weekes eds. Death as a Process. The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 140011808
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- ISBN
- 9781785703232
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This volume derives from a collaboration with my co-editor (Jake Weekes) to reflect on and further develop methodological and theoretical innovations in the study of the Roman dead, in particular through the material remains of funerary behaviour. It draws in part on a Roman Archaeology Conference session we co-organised in London in 2006 (international speakers’ costs being supported by the Roman Society). Four of the eleven papers were given at the conference, supplemented with four commissioned for the volume to meet our intention to explore the reconstruction of the funerary process with sufficient breadth, both in case studies and the methodological as well as theoretical questions they raised. Our selection also prioritised the securing of contributions which (a) assessed the subject from the point of view of development-led excavation on a very large scale and research-led fieldwork (so as to assess the potential value of applying high-resolution but labour-intensive recovery techniques in development-led excavation) and (b) enabled comparison and dialogue between Roman funerary archaeology as practised in different academic traditions, for example between Anglophone and Franco-Italian scholarship. The international spread is reflected in contributions which engage with Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Greece. As well as jointly authoring the preface, I sole-authored the introduction (pp.1– 26), an extensive review (, c. 13,200 words) of historiography which explains the context of the volume and contextualizes the papers. Weekes and I co-edited the rest of the papers, working with authors to keep a focus on key questions correcting and clarify arguments and achieve consistency of referencing and bibliography; I translated one paper (Ortalli) and gave extensive advice to authors in the translation of two others (Lepetz, Catalano et al.).
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