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Restless corpses: ‘secondary burial’ in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Estella Weiss-Krejci
Estella Weiss-Krejci*
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Institute for Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Universitätsstrasse 1, A-1160 Vienna, Austria. estellawk@hotmail.com
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Abstract

The historically documented burial samples of the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties allow a detailed analysis of the circumstances that led to dismemberment, evisceration, disturbance, exhumation and reburial over a millennium. The results may provide deeper and more broadly applicable insights into relevant cultural formation processes of élite burials.

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HabsburgBabenbergMayamortuary behavioursecondary burialformation processes
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 290 , December 2001 , pp. 769 - 780
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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