{"product_id":"breaking-and-making-the-ancestors-von-arjan-louwen-1","title":"Breaking and making the ancestors","description":"\u003cp\u003eTowards the capstone of the European Bronze Age, in an area stretching from the Carpathians in the East to the North Sea in the West, vast cremation grave cemeteries occur that are perhaps better known as 'urnfields.' Today some 700 of these burial sites have come to light in the Netherlands alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this corner of Europe, also known as the 'Lower-Rhine-Basin,' these cemeteries are often characterised by vast collections of small burial mounds under which the cremated remains of decedents were buried in small shaft-like pits. In many a case the cremated remains had been put in urns first, providing these cemeteries with their very name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough rich in numbers, urnfield graves are often described as 'poor' and 'simple' as only in rare occasions decedents were provided with grave gifts. However, when close attention is paid to the actions involved in the creation of these seemingly simple graves, they in fact reveal a richness in funerary practices that on their turn hint a complex and intricate mortuary process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book delves into the wealth of funerary practices reflected in more than 3,000 urnfield graves excavated throughout the Netherlands in order to reconstruct the mortuary process associated with the urnfields in this particular part of Europe. Together these graves tell interesting stories about how the dead related to each other, how plain and simple objects could be used as metaphors in the creation of relational and ancestral identities and how the dead were inextricably linked to the land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Bits and pieces\u003cbr\u003e2 The whole is more than the sum of its parts\u003cbr\u003e3 Dissecting the urnfield funeral\u003cbr\u003e4 The body and the urnfield mortuary process\u003cbr\u003e5 Objects and the urnfield mortuary process\u003cbr\u003e6 Assembling the ancestors\u003cbr\u003e7 The related dead\u003cbr\u003e8 Ancestral landscapes\u003cbr\u003e9 Breaking and making the ancestors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I: Inventory of sites\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II: Radiocarbon dates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9789464280012\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9789464280012","offer_id":39337322283101,"sku":"9789464280012","price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/efaa8bca-4b54-466c-95f5-c4fa3e176b75.jpg?v=1776234801","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/breaking-and-making-the-ancestors-von-arjan-louwen-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}