Tracking the dead in the Neolithic: the ‘Invisible Dead’ in Britain

Jay, Mandy; Scarre, Chris

Abstract

The ‘Invisible Dead’ project was established to provide a database of burial information which would allow the exploration of diachronic changes in mortuary practices from the Neolithic until the end of the Roman period across two regions: Britain and the Levant (Bradburyet al.2016). The relational database template adopted by the project is based upon that designed for the Fragile Crescent Project (Lawrenceet al.2012). It aims particularly to allow quantitative analyses of the data through time and across space (e.g.minimum number of individuals (MNI) identified from skeletal remains). This offers a greater flexibility of analysis than...

Citation

Jay, M., & Scarre, C. (2017). Tracking the dead in the Neolithic: the ‘Invisible Dead’ in Britain. In J. Bradbury, & C. Scarre (Eds.), Engaging with the dead : exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body (7-23). Oxbow Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1vgw6s0.4

• Acceptance Date: Jan 18, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Sep 30, 2017
• Publication Date: Sep 30, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 6, 2017
• Pages: 7-23
• Series Title: Studies in funerary archaeology
• Book Title: Engaging with the dead : exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body.
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1vgw6s0.4