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

在史前定居点发现人骨并不罕见。光谱范围从单一的、无关节的骨骼到完整的骨骼，从分散的骨骼到精心沉积的复合体。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，最多只是在所谓的不规则（异常）埋葬的背景下讨论。直到最近十年，青铜器时代研究人员的兴趣才转向定居点的人类骨骼。在计划出版的卷中，12篇文章中的10篇将介绍这些发现和特征的各种形式和方面，并讨论解释方法。第一次，空间框架明确地延伸到欧亚大陆，从而从哈萨克斯坦延伸到黑海北部地区和东南欧，再到西欧和中欧，这表明青铜时代人类遗骸的沉积不是一个区域或时间限制的现象。相反，这些发现构成了一个重要的来源类别，使人们对经常进行的世俗领域和神圣领域的分离产生了质疑，因此强烈需要对其进行系统的研究。因此，规划的体量是朝着这个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。与此同时，为了扩大解释的潜力，生物考古研究的重要性变得清晰。当务之急是扩大对住区人类遗骸的跨学科研究，包括社会和文化人类学的概念，以便更好地了解人体的做法。这种观点在目前的文章中广泛存在，即使包含了对该主题的不同方法。这本书以一篇文章开始，提供了所谓的聚落埋葬现象的历时性概述，并提出了系统记录和调查这种建筑群的概念。此外，玻利维亚高地定居点的个案研究与欧亚大陆的研究形成了对比。这个跨学科项目的结果是，在定居点埋葬是一种规则，而不是例外，提供了对宗教习俗的见解，这些习俗对世界其他地区经常暗示的生与死之间的界限产生怀疑，并提出了进一步解释的观点。

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.