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The Identity at Death of the Old and Young from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages on the Southeast Asian Mainland - Kenneth William Ross

The Identity at Death of the Old and Young from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages on the Southeast Asian Mainland

Buch | Softcover
374 Seiten
2025
Archaeopress Access Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80583-062-7 (ISBN)
CHF 113,45 inkl. MwSt
This book examines Neolithic to Iron Age burials in mainland Southeast Asia, focusing on age identity at death. Exploring four sites, it reveals diverse mortuary practices and social attitudes toward the old and young, offering the first regional study of elderly individuals in archaeological contexts.
Archaeological exploration of burial practices continues to provide insight into socio-historical cultural practices, behaviours, and attitudes to individual community members at the point of their death. This insight speaks to dominant social practices or beliefs within a population and may demonstrate connectedness with other regional localities. The ever-expanding body of evidence from burial settings across Mainland Southeast Asia, incorporating considerations of the range of social identities prominent in archaeological discourse, demonstrates the presence of complex, vibrant, and diverse practices throughout this region geographically and across time.







The Identity at Death of the Old and Young explores four burial sites from the southeast Asian mainland, populated in the Neolithic to Iron Age, to discuss burial behaviour in relation to the old and young. While a biological sex identity is considered, the study primarily explores the potentiality for age identities as a defining social characteristic at, and between, each site. A range of burial variables, normative and non-normative, are interrogated to illuminate and discuss social attitudes and behaviours toward each cohort.







This book provides the first comprehensive study of elderly subjects in mortuary settings from Mainland Southeast Asia. It incorporates emerging ageing methodologies and provides a regional perspective from discrete sites that contribute to the growing focus of older subjects in archaeological settings internationally.

Ken William Ross studied, then continued his post-graduate and doctoral research, at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University. Primary research interests include mortuary archaeology and age-identities in prehistory.

Abstract


 


1 Introduction


 


2 Mortuary Archaeology, Mourning and Grief


 


3 Gender, Age and Ageing


 


4 Mainland Southeast Asia: Overview and Site Discussion


 


5 Materials and Methods


 


6 Results: Khok Phanom Di


 


7 Results: Ban Non Wat


 


8 Results: Ban Lum Khao


 


9 Results: Noen U-Loke


 


10 Results: Generalised Linear Modelling


 


11 Discussion: Age as a Characterisation of Identity in Southeast Asia


 


12 Regionality and Resilience Theories in the Context of Southeast Asia







13 Conclusion







References







Appendix 1: Reallocated Adult Age Categories


 


Appendix 2: Funerary Variable Descriptions







Appendix 3: Burials by site including those excluded from analysis

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Zusatzinfo 50 figures, 52 tables (colour throughout)
Sprache englisch
Maße 203 x 276 mm
Gewicht 1492 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-80583-062-7 / 1805830627
ISBN-13 978-1-80583-062-7 / 9781805830627
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