Death, Emotion and Identity in Late Mesolithic Cemeteries: <i>Embodied Rituals and Ritualized Bodies: Tracing Ritual Practices in Late Mesolithic Burials</i>, by Liv Nilsson Stutz, 2003. (Acta Archaeologica Lundensia 46.) Lund: Almqvist &amp; Wiksell International; ISBN 91-22-02037-3 hardback, US$85, 395 pp., ills.

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doi:10.1017/s0959774304260103

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2004

DOI: 10.1017/s0959774304260103

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Death, Emotion and Identity in Late Mesolithic Cemeteries: Embodied Rituals and Ritualized Bodies: Tracing Ritual Practices in Late Mesolithic Burials, by Liv Nilsson Stutz, 2003. (Acta Archaeologica Lundensia 46.) Lund: Almqvist & Wiksell International; ISBN 91-22-02037-3 hardback, US$85, 395 pp., ills.

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Cremation Burials of Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers on the European Plain

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2021

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Cremation burials of Stone Age hunter-gatherers were found at 21 sites across the European Plain (including southern Scandinavia). In total, there are 54 graves and deposits containing bones of at least 89 individuals. Sites with Mesolithic cremations are unevenly spread over the European Plain and there are some regions where this type of burial was more common, such as the Seine Valley and the Low Countries, southern Scandinavia or north-eastern Poland. In all of these regions, the oldest burials are dated to the Early Mesolithic, which indicates a parallel and independent origin of this custom. Moreover, each region or even cemetery has its own features of the cremation rite. In both the Western European Plain and southern Scandinavia, most burials are dated to the Middle Mesolithic and there are only a few examples linked to the Late Mesolithic. North-eastern Poland, including the Dudka cemetery, is probably the only region where cremation was practised on a wider scale in the Late Mesolithic and para-Neolithic. The share of cremations among all burial types differs between regions and cemeteries. It was probably a dominant practice in the Middle Mesolithic in the Netherlands. In other cases, cremation probably involved a large part of the local hunter-gatherer society, for instance at the Dudka cemetery in Masuria or in the Middle Mesolithic of Vedbæk Fiord (Zealand), whereas at the cemeteries in Skateholm it amounted to only a few percent, suggesting that it was practised in the case of the deceased of particular status or in unusual circumstances only.

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