Deviant burial in the archaeological record / edited by Eileen M. Murphy.

Oxford, UK : Oxbow Books, ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed by] David Brown Book Co., [2008], ©2008.

xviii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Papers originally presented at a session held at the 11th annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists that took place in Cork, Ireland, Sept., 2005.

Unusual burials and necrophobia : an insight into the burial archaeology of fear / Anastasia Tsaliki -- What actually is a "deviant burial?" : comparing German-language and Anglophone research on deviant burials / Edeltraud Aspöck -- Odd one out? : earlier Neolithic deposition of human remains in caves and rock shelters in the Yorkshire dales / Stephany Leach -- The value of palaeoteratology and forensic pathology for the understanding of atypical burials : two Mediterranean examples from the field / Philippe Charlier -- Ritual inhumations and "deposits" of children among the Geto-Dacians / Valerin Sîrbu -- Aspects of deviant burial in Roman Britain / Alison Taylor -- Normal, deviant,and atypical : burial variation in Late Saxon Wessex, c. AD 700-1100 / Annia Kristina Cherryson -- Charcoal burial : a minority burial rite in early medieval Europe / James Holloway -- Off with their heads : the Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, East Yorkshire / Jo Buckberry -- Unusual life, unusual death, and the fate of the corpse : a case study from dynastic Europe / Estella Weiss-Krejci -- The origins of cilliní in Ireland / Colm J. Donnelly and Eileen M. Murphy -- Grief, grievance, and grandeur : an eighteenth-century mausoleum in Mainham, Co. Kildare / Mark Gordon.

Includes bibliographical references.