Topic 4: The visible vs. invisible dead

Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative. Routledge. (Chapters 4 and 6)

Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative. Routledge. (Chapters 4 and 6)

Bradbury, Jennie, and Graham Philip. 2020. “Mapping and Modelling the ‘Invisible Dead’: Reconstructing Demographics in the Ancient Near East.” In Studies in Honour of Tony J. Wilkinson: New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East, edited by Dan Lawrence, Mark Altaweel, and Graham Philip. Archaeopress Archaeology.

Hockey, Jenny, Trish Green, Andy Clayden, and Mark Powell. 2012. “Landscapes of the Dead? Natural Burial and the Materialization of Absence.” Journal of Material Culture 17 (2): 115–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183512442631

Kostanti, Katerina. 2017. “‘Missing Infants’: Giving Life to Aspects of Childhood in Mycenaean Greece via Intramural Burials.” In Children, Death and Burial: Archaeological Discourses, edited by Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy.

Murphy, Amanda, and Andrew T. Chamberlain. 2017. “Looking Forward to Look Back.” In Engaging with the Dead: Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body, edited by Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre. Oxbow Books.

Sulas, Federica, Merethe Schifter Bagge, Renée Enevold, et al. 2022. “Revealing the Invisible Dead: Integrated Bio-Geoarchaeological Profiling Exposes Human and Animal Remains in a Seemingly ‘Empty’ Viking-Age Burial.” Journal of Archaeological Science 141 (May): 105589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105589.

Aspöck, Edeltraud. 2008. “What Actually Is a ‘Deviant Burial’?” In Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record, edited by Eileen M. Murphy, vol. 2. Oxbow Books. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1cd0ptg.7.

Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative. Routledge. (Chapter 9)

Lindenlauf, Astrid. 2001. “Thrown Away Like Rubbish-Disposal of the Dead in Ancient Greece.” Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 12: 86–99.

Porter, Anne, Thomas L. McClellan, Susanne Wilhelm, et al. 2021. “‘Their Corpses Will Reach the Base of Heaven’: A Third-Millennium BC War Memorial in Northern Mesopotamia?” Antiquity 95 (382): 900–918. Cambridge Core. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.58.

Scott, Amy B., Tracy K. Betsinger, and Anastasia Tsaliki. 2020. “Deconstructing ‘Deviant’: An Introduction to the History of Atypical Burials and the Importance of Context in the Bioarchaeological Record.” In The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange. Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials, 1st ed., edited by Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki. University Press of Florida. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx06wvr.

Weiss-Krejci, E. 2013. “The Unburied Dead.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death & Burial, edited by S. Tarlow and L. Nilsson Stutz. Oxford University Press.