Scattered Human Bones

Résumé du livre

"This monograph brings together the results of an interdisciplinary study of the disarticulated human bones from West Frisian Bronze Age settlements (province of Noord-Holland). This part of the Netherlands was densely inhabited in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-800 BC). However, barrows are less common and funerary practices are still not well understood. Key question is: What happened to most of the deceased? To answer this, human remains were studied by several experts, focussing e.g. on microwear and luminescence analysis. The results take us a step further to a better understanding of the Bronze Age mortuary practices."--achterflap.