The odd, the unusual, and the strange bioarchaeological explorations of atypical burials / edited by Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki ; foreword by Eileen M. Murphy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Deconstructing "deviant": an introduction to the history of atypical burials and the importance of context in the bioarchaeological record / Amy B. Scott, Tracy K. Betsinger, Anastasia Tsaliki -- Bodies among fragments: non-normative inhumations among the preclassic and classic period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin / Jessica I. Cerezo-Román -- Interpreting a multiple burial in an early ancestral Pueblo village / Ann L.W. Stodder -- A young man twice burned: a deviant burial from West-Central Illinois / Della Collins Cook, Laura Gano, Kristin M. Hedman, Susan Spencer Helfrich, Andrew R. Thompson -- The odd man out in a pioneer cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California / Patricia M. Lambert -- Defining non-normative practices in a diverse funerary record: insights from the Caribbean / Hayley L. Mickleburgh, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Jason E. Laffoon, Darlene A. Weston, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Anne van Duijvenbode, Angus A.A. Mol -- Good, bad, or indifferent? A unique "deviant" burial from the formative site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, South Central Andes / Olga U. Gabelmann, Lawrence S. Owens -- The hunchback, the contortionist, the man with the stolen identity, and the one who will be born in the afterlife: pre-Hispanic deviant burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru / Wies?aw Wi?ckowski, Mi?osz Giersz, Roberto Pimentel Nita -- What's the norm? "irregular" and "regular" burial practices of the early iron age in Central Europe / Nils Müller-Scheessel, Carola Benszin, Gisela Grupe, Annette Schwentke, Anja Staskiewicz, Thomas Tütken, Joachim Wahl -- Burial in a kiln: transgression and punishment in late antiquity / Anastasia Tsaliki -- Variation beyond the grave: contextualizing unusual burials in early medieval Bohemia / Lauren Hosek -- Theoretical and methodological approaches to non-normative burials in Finland in the eleventh-thirteenth centuries AD / Ulla Moilanen -- Atypical burials in early medieval Poland: a critical overview / Leszek Gardela -- Does health define deviancy? Non-normative burials in post-medieval Poland / Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott -- The "vampires" of Lesbos: detecting and interpreting anti-revenant ritual in Greece / Sandra Garvie-Lok, Anastasia Tsalik -- Natural mummification as a non-normative mortuary custom of modern period Sicily (1600-1800) / Dario Piombino-Mascali, Kenneth C. Nystrom -- Out of range? Non-normative funerary practices from the neolithic to the early twentieth century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Scott D. Haddow, Josh W. Sadvari, Christopher J. Knüsel, Sophie V. Moore, Clark S. Larsen, Selin E. Nugent -- Deviant treatment of the body as a mortuary ritual: a case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan / Takeshi Ishikawa -- Ancestors, conflict, and criminality in ancient China and Mongolia / Christine Lee -- Dependent deviance: castration and deviant burial / Kathryn Reusch -- Afterword / Andrew Reynolds.

This volume focuses specifically on non-normative or atypical mortuary practices situated within a contextually-driven understanding of social and cultural norms surrounding the process of interment. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Europe, and Asia, this comprehensive volume stresses the commonality between non-normative or atypical treatments spanning millennia. Additionally, this volume strives to employ a holistic understanding of non-normative burials both in terms of assessing the significance and interpretation of individual cases of atypical interments, as well as to better understand the overall phenomenon of these mortuary practices, which continue to be the source of fascination and debate within mortuary archaeology.

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