Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Solinda Kamani and Luke Lavan -- Burial in Late Antiquity: A Bibliographic Essay / Solinda Kamani -- Regional Perspectives -- Aspects of Late Roman Burial Practice in Southern Britain / Paul Booth -- Burial in Late Antiquity: Evidence from Londinium / Victoria Ridgeway and Sadie Watson -- New Cemetery Evidence from Late Roman Canterbury: the Former Hallet’s Garage Site in Context / Elizabeth Duffy , Adrian Gollop , and Jake Weekes -- Levis aesto terra – Early Christian Elite Burials from St. Maximin, Trier (Germany) / N. Reifarth , H. Merten , W.-R. Teegen , J. Amendt , I. Vanden Berghe , C. Heron , J. Wiethold , U. Drewello , R. Drewello , and L. Clemens -- Funerary Patterns in Late Roman Cities (3rd to 7th c.): Reviewing Archaeological Data in Northern Italy / Alexandra Chavarría Arnau -- Funerary Practices in Late Antique Sardinia: Overview and Potential / Mauro Puddu -- Burial Rites in Byzantine Sicily – New Approaches and Discoveries / Valentina Caminneci , Maria-Serena Rizzo , and Martin Carver -- Late Roman Burials in Slovenia / Kaja Stemberger -- Death at the Edge of Empire: Burial Practices in the Province of Scythia (4th–7th c. AD ) / Ciprian Crețu and Andrei D. Soficaru -- Burial and Society in the Greek World during Late Antiquity / Joseph L. Rife -- From Necropoleis to Koimētēria: Burial Practices in Late Antique (late 3rd–7th c. AD ) Sagalassos, South-West Turkey / Sam Cleymans and Peter Talloen -- The Archaeology of Late Antique Mortuary Practices in the Near East / Ádám Bollók -- The Archaeology of Death, Burial and Commemoration in Late Antique Egypt / Elisabeth R. O’Connell -- Back Matter -- Abstracts in French -- Indices.

Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology A.D. 284-650, across the late antique world. This second volume includes papers exploring all aspects of funerary archaeology, from scientific samples in graves, to grave goods and tomb robbing and a bibliographic essay. It brings into focus neglected regions not usually considered by funerary archaeologists in NW Europe, such as the Levant, where burial archaeology is rich in grave good, to Sicily and Sardinia, where post-mortem offerings and burial manipulations are well-attested. We also hear from excavations in Britain, from Canterbury and London, and see astonishing fruits from the application of science to graves recently excavated in Trier.

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