Mensch - Koerper - Tod: Der Umgang mit menschlichen UEberresten im Neolithikum Mitteleuropas
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Nadia Balkowski (Contributor) Isabel A. Hohle (Contributor) Kerstin P. Hofmann (Contributor) Almut Schuelke (Contributor)
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Das europaeische Neolithikum zeichnet sich durch eine Vielzahl von Umgangsweisen mit menschlichen Koerpern von Toten aus. Der archaeologische Diskurs zu Mensch, Koerper und Tod stuetzte sich fuer das Neolithikum traditionell jedoch auf Koerperbestattungen. Dies ist unter anderem auf die in der westlichen Welt vorherrschende Idealvorstellung von Totenruhe und der Deponierung eines Koerpers an einem, oft separat dafuer vorgesehenen Ort zurueckzufuehren.
In der letzten Zeit gerieten jedoch Deponierungen fragmentierter und mitunter auch manipulierter menschlicher UEberreste in den Fokus des Interesses, nicht zuletzt durch die Zunahme neuer archaeologischer Funde, die sich mit traditionellen Begriffen und Konzepten nicht ohne weiteres erklaeren lassen. Eine wachsende Zahl solcher Funde fordert die Archaeologie heraus, sich mit diesen Themen aus neuen Perspektiven zu beschaeftigen.
Der vorliegende Band integriert theoretische Reflexionen zur Bedeutung des menschlichen Koerpers und zur Wahrnehmung des UEbergangs vom Leben zum Tod, wie sie anhand von Bestattungen und Deponierungen menschlicher UEberreste und archaeologischer Funde untersucht werden koennen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem neolithischen Mitteleuropa. Mit Hilfe verschiedener interdisziplinaerer und theoretischer Ansaetze wird anhand von Fallstudien deutlich, dass etablierte Praktiken und performative Akte des Umgangs mit dem menschlichen Koerper hochkomplex sind und daher auch gemeinsam aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln betrachtet werden sollten.
Der aus einer Tagungssektion in Wuerzburg 2019 hervorgegangene Sammelband vereint dabei Beitraege zu verschiedenen Gebieten und neolithischen Subperioden, wie der Linearbandkeramik, der Trichterbecherkultur und dem subalpinen Spaetneolithikum, darunter prominente Fundkomplexe. Eingerahmt werden diese von Aufsaetzen, die sich kritisch mit der archaeologischen Erforschung des Umgangs von Tod und mit Toten auseinandersetzen und einem zusammenfassenden UEberblick zu den Beitraegen des Sammelbandes geben.
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The European Neolithic is characterized by a variety of practices for dealing with human remains. In Central European Neolithic studies, the archaeological discourse on humans, bodies and death has traditionally dealt with finds of inhumations. This is not least due to dominant Western conceptions of death involving the deposition of the intact body at one, often delimited, place. Recently, focus has been drawn to the depositions of fragmented and even manipulated human remains, not least through an increasing amount of new archaeological evidence, which challenges traditional archaeological terms, concepts and research practices. The present volume integrates theoretical perspectives on the meaning of the human body and the perception of the transformation from life to death in as much as they can be studied from archaeological finds such as burials and depositions of human remains, with a special focus on Neolithic Central Europe. The collection of papers, the result of a session at a conference in Wuerzburg 2019, brings together articles with theoretical approaches, as well as contributions which deal with different areas and Neolithic sub-periods, such as the Linear Pottery culture, the Funnel Beaker Culture and the sub-alpine Late Neolithic, and includes prominent find complexes. These are framed by essays that critically examine archaeological research on the handling of death and the dead, and a summary overview of the contributions to the volume 42fc / 7 bw
About the Author
Nadia Balkowski works as a scientific consultant at the LVR office for preservation and care of field monuments. As part of a DFG-funded project, she gained her PhD at the University of Cologne with a study on settlement organization, mobility and woodworking of the Linear Pottery Culture site at Arnoldsweiler (in prep.). In 2019 she received a travel grant from the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute. In addition to the Archaeology of the Rhineland, she is particularly concerned with the Linear Pottery Culture period and the Neolithic period in Europe in general. Isabel A. Hohle is Scientific Research Member at the Unit of Survey and Excavation Methodology of the Romano-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt/Main. She gained her PhD at the University of Cologne with a comprehensive study on the Linear Pottery Culture settlement with graveyard of Schkeuditz-Altscherbitz (in press). Besides Neolithic Archaeology her research interests are Social Archaeology, Archaeology of Ritual practices and minimal and non-invasive Methods in fieldwork and object analyses. Kerstin P. Hofmann is Director of the Romano-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt/Main. Previously, she was a scholarship holder at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and worked for the excellence cluster Topoi in Berlin. Her research interest focus on death rituals, space and collective identities and human-thing relations in Europe during the Metal Ages. She is author of Der rituelle Umgang mit dem Tod (2008) and co-editor of several anthologies, e. g. Massendinghaltung in der Archaeologie (2016) and Between Memory Sites and Memory Networks (2017). Almut Schuelke is professor of Nordic Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Her research comprises studies on landscape archaeology, human-environment interaction and social space, mobility, ritual and mortuary practices. Her works on the social dimension of mortuary practices include studies on christianization and grave finds (Southwest Germany) and on megalithic tombs in Neolithic Zealand (Denmark), the latter with focus on different modes of burying the dead as well as the social relations between humans and their surroundings as embedded in megalithic tombs, and on Mesolithic burial and mortuary practices in Norway in a Northern European perspective.
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- Contributor: Nadia Balkowski
- Imprint: Sidestone Press
- ISBN13: 9789464270556
- Number of Pages: 308
- Packaged Dimensions: 172x253mm
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Sidestone Press
- Release Date: 2023-09-20
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Nadia Balkowski works as a scientific consultant at the LVR office for preservation and care of field monuments. As part of a DFG-funded project, she gained her PhD at the University of Cologne with a study on settlement organization, mobility and woodworking of the Linear Pottery Culture site at Arnoldsweiler (in prep.). In 2019 she received a travel grant from the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute. In addition to the Archaeology of the Rhineland, she is particularly concerned with the Linear Pottery Culture period and the Neolithic period in Europe in general. Isabel A. Hohle is Scientific Research Member at the Unit of Survey and Excavation Methodology of the Romano-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt/Main. She gained her PhD at the University of Cologne with a comprehensive study on the Linear Pottery Culture settlement with graveyard of Schkeuditz-Altscherbitz (in press). Besides Neolithic Archaeology her research interests are Social Archaeology, Archaeology of Ritual practices and minimal and non-invasive Methods in fieldwork and object analyses. Kerstin P. Hofmann is Director of the Romano-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt/Main. Previously, she was a scholarship holder at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and worked for the excellence cluster Topoi in Berlin. Her research interest focus on death rituals, space and collective identities and human-thing relations in Europe during the Metal Ages. She is author of Der rituelle Umgang mit dem Tod (2008) and co-editor of several anthologies, e. g. Massendinghaltung in der Archaeologie (2016) and Between Memory Sites and Memory Networks (2017). Almut Schuelke is professor of Nordic Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Her research comprises studies on landscape archaeology, human-environment interaction and social space, mobility, ritual and mortuary practices. Her works on the social dimension of mortuary practices include studies on christianization and grave finds (Southwest Germany) and on megalithic tombs in Neolithic Zealand (Denmark), the latter with focus on different modes of burying the dead as well as the social relations between humans and their surroundings as embedded in megalithic tombs, and on Mesolithic burial and mortuary practices in Norway in a Northern European perspective.
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