Invisible death rites in Prehistory: a new tool kit for revealing complex treatment after death in the European Neolithic.

史前史中看不见的死亡仪式：揭示欧洲新石器时代死后复杂治疗的新工具包。

• 批准号: 2888738
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2888738
• 关键词: Invisible; death; rites; Prehistory; new

Before death was dealt with by medical or funeral specialists, mourners would have closely engaged with dead bodies. Yet, for prehistory, immediate inhumation after death is often assumed, with the grave interpreted as representing a static identity for the dead. Two scientific methodologies, archaeothanatology and bone histology, have the potential to reveal how the dead were treated and suggest more drawn out engagements with the dead. This study will be the first to combine and apply these methods to the earliest farmers of central Europe, revealing new understandings of deathwork during one of the transformative periods in human history.

在医疗或丧葬专家处理死亡之前，哀悼者会与尸体密切接触。然而，在史前史中，人们通常认为死后立即土葬，坟墓被解释为代表死者的静态身份。两种科学方法，考古学和骨组织学，有可能揭示死者是如何被对待的，并建议与死者进行更多的接触。这项研究将是第一个将这些方法联合收割机应用于中欧最早的农民的研究，揭示了人类历史上一个变革时期对死亡工作的新理解。