Death in Times of Change

Foreword of the series editors Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Setting the scene 1.2. Scope of the study – Aims and objectives 1.2.1. Research hypotheses 1.2.2. Methodology 1.3. Thesis structure Chapter 2: Hunter-fisher burial sites in Soviet and Russian research – Literature review 2.1. The perception of Early-Middle-Holocene burial rituals in Soviet-Russian archaeology 2.1.1. In search of the ancestors of the Slavs – First discoveries of Late Stone Age burials (from the 1880s to 1920) 2.1.2. Just indifferent cannibals? Research activity in Soviet Russia on the brink of regime tightening (1920s) 2.1.3. Religious beliefs as a mirror of social structure (1929 and the 1930s) 2.1.4. Facing the dead and planting their roots – Historical reconstruction and Indigenism in the time of the Great Construction Project of Communism (1946-1950) 2.1.5. Ethnicity, language, and material culture – Combined analyses of social structure at large cemeteries (the 1950s and the 1960s) 2.1.6. Empiricism, definitionism, structuralism – On the way to theoretical diversity within Marxist philosophy and non-conformist papers (the 1970s and the 1980s) 2.1.7. Attention focusing on cemetery features, revival of semiotics, and a new archaeology of death (1990-present) 2.1.8. Conclusions 2.2. Gaps in the literature 2.2.1. Source-related gaps 2.2.2. Methodological/conceptual gaps 2.2.3. Epistemological gaps 2.2.4. Towards filling the gaps Chapter 3: The world of prehistoric foragers and its transformations 3.1. Hunter-fisher archaeology between the Baltic and the Urals – General overview 3.1.1. Terminological legacy 3.1.2. Marxist legacies and the emerging directions in the archaeology of hunter-fishers 3.1.3. Prehistoric foragers of the East European Plain and their ways of life – State of the art 3.2. The feel of the steppe – Transformations in the southeastern part of the East European Plain 3.2.1. Geographical characteristics 3.2.2. Socio-cultural processes in the area – Main findings, theories, chronology 3.2.3. Conclusions 3.3. The open space – Hunter-fishers in the central part of the East European Plain 3.3.1. Geographical characteristics 3.3.2. Socio-cultural processes in the area – Main findings, theories, chronology 3.3.3. Conclusions 3.4. The traditions they brought – Settling down in the northwestern part of the East European Plain 3.4.1. Geographical characteristics 3.4.2. Socio-cultural processes in the area – Peculiarity of lithic preferences, surge of ceramic traditions, and rise of social complexity 3.4.3. Conclusions 3.5. Place of death in the course of socio-cultural transformations – Conclusion Chapter 4: Theoretical framework 4.1. Situating this study within contemporary debates 4.1.1. At the crossroads of the archaeology of burials 4.2. On the nature of ritual 4.3. Overview of three major theories 4.3.1. Rituals in action – Behavioural archaeology 4.3.2. Contextualism 4.3.3. Structuralism 4.3.4. The relationship among the concepts 4.4. From burial rituals to mortuary practices – System of definitions Chapter 5: Data and methods 5.1. Problem-oriented research 5.2. Data collection 5.2.1. Data sources 5.2.2. Tools used to collect data 5.2.3. Database structure 5.3. Analytical tools 5.3.1. Big Data – Multiple factor analysis vs. principal component analysis 5.3.2. Contextual analysis 5.3.3. Natural scientific analyses 5.4. Who owns the bones? Ethical considerations 5.5. Conclusion Chapter 6: Between Europe and Asia – The southeastern part of the East European Plain 6.1. Early-Middle Holocene burial practices in the area – State of the art 6.1.1. History of research 6.1.2. Chronological framework 6.1.3. Existing understanding of the hunter-fisher burial rituals in the area 6.2. General characteristics of the archaeological material 6.3. Results 6.3.1. Burial goods 6.3.2. Anthropological remains 6.3.3. Accompanying burial features – Analysis 6.3.4. Chronological sequence of the graves 6.4. Change in mortuary rituals in the context of other transformations – Conclusions Chapter 7: The central part of the East European Plain 7.1. Studies of the hunter-fisher interments in the area – State of the art 7.1.1. Methods and research scale 7.1.2. Chronological framework 7.1.3. Existing interpretation of hunter-fisher-gatherer burial rituals in the area 7.2. General characteristics of archaeological material 7.3. Results 7.3.1. Burial goods 7.3.2. Anthropological remains 7.3.3. Accompanying burial features 7.4. Diversity and dynamics of changes in mortuary rituals in the context of other transformations – Conclusions Chapter 8: Selected observations on the hunter-fisher rituals in the northwestern part of the East European Plain 8.1. Hunter-gatherer burial studies in the area – State of the art 8.1.1. Methods and research scale 8.1.2. Chronological framework 8.1.3. Observations on the burial rituals of the local prehistoric foragers 8.2. General characteristics of archaeological material 8.3. The results of investigations 8.3.1. Burial goods 8.3.2. Anthropological remains 8.3.3. Accompanying burial features 8.4. Conclusions – Implication of the findings Chapter 9: Of grave importance – Transformation of hunter-fisher burial rituals in a larger context 9.1. Relationships between the observations – Trends, generalisations, underlying patterns and mechanisms 9.1.1. Global transformations 9.2. Thematic insights from burial data 9.2.1. Death in a violent world? Life after violent death? 9.2.2. Some thoughts on the societal differentiation based on the burial material 9.2.3. Dead people revisited – Post-depositional grave disturbances 9.2.4. When they overcame the flames – Role of cremation in the burial rituals of the prehistoric forest foragers Chapter 10: Changing rituals, changing worlds – Conclusion 10.1. Preservation, chronology, generalisation and other limitations of the study 10.2. Ways forward – Perspectives for further research work 10.2.1. Scenery for death and burials – The role of the landscape for interments, the re-use of burial spaces, and the relation of settlements to cemeteries 10.2.2. Burial kits – The long story 10.2.3. Wrapped, disarticulated, dismembered, fragmented, burnt, and buried – A look into particular burial practices Summaries Summary in German (Zusammenfassung) Summary in Russian (??????) References Archival sources Appendices Appendix A: Catalogue of hunter-fisher burial sites in the East European forest zone Southeastern part of the East European Plain Central part of the East European Plain Northwestern part of the East European Plain Appendix B: Radiocarbon chronology Table of radiocarbon dates Online supplements Supplement 1 – Hunter-fisher burial sites of the East European Plain forest – Dataset Supplement 2 – Description of sources Supplement 3 – Data reliability and chronological framework Supplement 4 – Additional figures

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