Elke Kaiser (Hrsg.): : Space not only for the living: Human remains in Bronze Age settlements / Raum nicht nur für die Lebenden: Menschliche Überreste in Bronzezeitlichen Siedlungen

人类骨骼的发现在史前聚居地并不少见。光谱范围从单一的、脱节的骨骼到完整的骨骼，从零星的骨骼到仔细存放的Find复合体。在很长一段时间里，这些发现和特征几乎没有被认为是青铜时代的，充其量只是在所谓的不规则(异常)埋葬的背景下讨论。只是在过去的十年里，青铜时代的研究人员才对聚落中的人类骨骼感兴趣。计划中的12篇文章中有10篇将介绍这些发现的各种形式和方面，以及这些发现的特点和辩论的解释方法。空间框架第一次明确扩展到欧亚大陆，从而从哈萨克斯坦黑海北部地区和东南欧延伸到西欧和中欧，表明青铜时代的人类遗骸沉积不是一个区域或时间有限的现象。相反，这些发现构成了一个重要的来源范畴，它质疑通常将亵渎和神圣领域分开的做法，因此非常需要对其进行系统的研究。因此，计划中的卷是朝着这一方向迈出的重要的第一步，并展示了这些发现和特征的多样性。同时，为了扩大解释的潜力，生物考古研究的重要性变得明显。必须扩大对住区人类遗骸的跨学科研究，将社会和文化人类学的概念纳入其中，以便更好地了解人体活动。这一观点在目前的文章中很普遍，即使包含了对这一主题的不同方法。这本书以一篇文章开始，对所谓的定居点埋葬现象进行了历时的概述，并提出了系统记录和调查这类建筑群的概念。此外，玻利维亚高地定居点的案例研究与欧亚大陆的研究形成了对比。在这一跨学科项目中，定居点埋葬是惯例而不是例外，这一项目的结果使人们深入了解了宗教习俗，这些习俗对世界其他地区经常隐含的生与死之间的界限提出了质疑，并为进一步的解释提供了一个视角。

Finds of human bones are not uncommon in prehistoric settlements. The spectrum ranges from single, disarticulated bones to complete skeletons, from scattered bones to carefully deposited find complexes. For a long time these finds and features were hardly considered for the Bronze Age, at most merely discussed in the context of so-called irregular (deviant) burials. It is only in the last decade that the interest among Bronze Age researchers is directed towards human bones in settlements. Ten of twelve articles in the planned volume will present the various forms and aspects of such finds and features and debate interpretive approaches. For the first time, the spatial framework is explicitly extended to Eurasia, thus reaching from Kazakhstan over the northern Black Sea area and Southeastern Europe to Western as well as Central Europe, demonstrating that the deposition of human remains in the Bronze Age is not a regional or temporally limited phenomenon. On the contrary, such finds constitute an important source category that calls into question the often made separation of profane and sacred spheres and whose systematic research is strongly required for this very reason. The planned volume thus constitutes a first important step in this direction and presents the diversity of such finds and features. At the same time, the importance of bioarchaeological research becomes clear in order to expand the potential for interpretation. It is imperative that the interdisciplinary study of human remains in settlements be expanded to include concepts from social and cultural anthropology for a better understanding of practices with the human body. This perspective is widespread among the present articles, even while containing different approaches to the subject. The book starts with an article offering a diachronic overview of the phenomenon of so-called settlement burials and presents a concept for the systematic recording as well as investigation of such complexes. Furthermore, the case study of a settlement in the Bolivian highlands contrasts the studies in Eurasia. The results of this interdisciplinary project, in which burials in settlements are the rule rather than the exception, provide insight into religious practices that casts doubt on boundaries between life and death often implied in other parts of the world and presents so as well as a perspective on further interpretation.