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

在医疗或葬礼专家处理死亡之前，哀悼者会密切接触身体。然而，对于史前来说，通常认为死后立即埋葬，坟墓代表着死者的静态身份。两种科学方法，考古解剖学和骨组织学，有可能揭示死者是如何被对待的，并建议与死者进行更多旷日持久的接触。这项研究将首次将这些方法结合并应用于中欧最早的农民，揭示出对人类历史上转型时期之一的死亡工作的新理解。

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.