Infant death and burial in Roman Italy

Carroll, Maureen

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“…In ancient Italy, infant burials often exhibited different features in comparison with adult burials: for example, in the Roman period neonates may be inhumed instead of cremated, and/or buried outside formal graveyards (e.g. Gaio 2005;Carroll 2011). A scarcity of neonatal depositions in formal cemeteries is also common during the first millennium bc, albeit with variations across the peninsula.…”

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Anomalous Mortuary Behaviour and Social Exclusion in Iron Age Italy:

Perego

2014

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This article explores the relation between abnormal mortuary behaviour a n d social exclusion in first m il lennium BC northeast Italy by analysing a sample o f some 2 0 0 0 cremation a n d inhumation graves from the Veneto region. By drawing fro m research on funerary deviancy a n d anthropological, archaeological a n d bioarchaeological approaches to social inequality, the analysis offers an investigation ofVenetic socio-political practices o f inclusion in vs exclusion fro m society, sometimes resulting in niches o f extreme social marginality. First, I discuss how cremation represented the normative burial rite in Iron Age Veneto as well as a ritual m eant to underline the social meaningfulness o f dead individuals granted high degrees o f social recognition.Second, Ifocus on the rarer inhum ation ritual a n d its possible role in substantiating the incomplete social in tegration o f the deceased. Third, I detail how selectedpractices carried out on non-cremated hum an remains, such as disarticulation, mutilation a n d burial outside the fo rm a l cemetery, may have been deviant funerary rituals potentially intended to exclude the deceasedfrom society. Finally, this study discusses how the complex ity ofVenetic funerary practices sometimes resulted in the adoption o f rituals not easily definable in terms o f ' deviancy' a n d ' normalcy, which were variously adopted a t different sites a n d in different chronological phases to express multifaceted concerns about the role o f the dead w ithin their community a n d the variable degrees o f social inclusion granted to different individuals.

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2014

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“…Other historical sources also show that intense grief was commonly experienced and expressed in the context of high infant mortality (e.g. Carroll 2011;Golden 1988;Rosenblatt 1983).…”

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“…The potential for emotional variability is sometimes acknowledged (e.g. Carroll 2011;King 2000), but the presumed correspondence between burial mode and emotional experience is usually presented as if self-evident. Extensive historical and archaeological discussion of the possible relationship between infant mortality and parental attachment has offered little if any theoretical basis for explaining varied emotional or ritual response to infant death.…”

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Infant Death and the Archaeology of Grief

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2015

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“… 7 Rawson 1986; Wiedemann 1989; Gowland 2001; Rawson 2003; Redfern 2007; Carroll 2012; Carroll and Graham 2014.…”

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Between Roundhouse and Villa: Assessing Perinatal and Infant Burials from Piddington, Northamptonshire

Hodson

2017

Britannia

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Infant death and burial in Roman Italy

Cited by 48 publications

References 16 publications

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Anomalous Mortuary Behaviour and Social Exclusion in Iron Age Italy:

Infant Death and the Archaeology of Grief

Between Roundhouse and Villa: Assessing Perinatal and Infant Burials from Piddington, Northamptonshire

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