edited by Charlotte A. Roberts, Frances Lee, and John Bintliff.
Oxford, England :
B.A.R.,
1989.
x, 293 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
30 cm
BAR British series,
211
0143-3032 ;
Proceedings of a conference held in May 1988.
Includes bibliographical references.
Burial archaeology : the holistic approach / C.A. Roberts -- Burial archaeology : the state of the art past, present and future / K. Manchester -- The taphonomy of inhumation burials / A.N. Garland and R.C. Janaway -- On and off-site conservation of bone / J.A. Spriggs -- The processing of human bone from archaeological sites / G. Stroud -- Physical anthropology : the basic bones / A. Stirland -- Cremations : expectations, methodologies and realities / J. McKinley -- Pagan Saxon cemeteries : a study of the problem of sexing by grave goods and bones / J. Henderson -- Cemetery populations, carrying capacities and the individual in history / J. Bintliff -- Computers and burial archaeology / J. Richards -- Computerised recording and analysis of excavated human dental remains / W. Bouts and Tj. Pot -- Teeth : some current developments in research / S. Hillson -- Tooth wear and the archaeologist : the role of human tooth wear in archaeological research / E. Cruwys -- Dental caries and nutritional stress in English archaeological child populations / E.O. Sullivan, S. Williams and M.E.J. Curzon -- A model for assessing health patterns from skeletal remains / V. Higgins -- Chemical analysis of shadow burials / P. Bethell -- Human bone strontium analysis in the investigation of palaeodiets : a case study from a British Anglo-Saxon site / S. Mays -- Spong Hill Anglo-Saxon cemetery / C. Hills -- Spong Hill : the cremations / J. McKinley -- The leper hospital of St. James and St. Mary Magdalene, Chichester / J. Magilton and F. Lee -- It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it / M. Adams and J. Reeve -- The case for crypt excavation not crypt clearance / M. Cox.