1st Edition

The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World

By Katharina Rebay-Salisbury Copyright 2016
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages 16 Color & 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 16 Color & 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art. The human remains... Read more

Preface



Introduction



Theoretical Framework



The Iron Age Setting



Funerary Practices and the Body



The Representation of the Body: Images and Imagined Worlds



The Image and the Object



The Hallstatt Body in Life and Death



Motif networks



Conclusion



List of sites included in the analysis



Bibliography

Biography

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury received her PhD in prehistoric archaeology from the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2005 and subsequently worked as a researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Leicester (both UK). Her research within the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Tracing Networks’ centred on studying human representations, identities, and social relations in the late Bronze and Iron Age of central Europe. She currently investigates motherhood in prehistoric Europe at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria).