Living Through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World (Studies in Funerary Archaeology)

by Maureen Carroll (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $37.75

  This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory.