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Figure 2. The cist at Hove, Vik municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county. From Shetelig 1917, plate III. The bone determination suggests that there may have been several individuals in the grave, among them a young female (Næss 1996[1968]: 138). The top grave consisted of an inhumation of a male, based on the assemblage. Remains of teeth showed that he was placed in the opposite direction of the female in the bottom grave. The typological relationship between the bucket-shaped clay pots in the three burials indicates that there is little difference in time between them. According to Shetelig, the individuals in the grave had belonged to the same generation, and were probably closely related in life. He compared the grave in Byrkjehaugen with a grave in a large mound at Kolve, also in Voss, where there was an inhumation in the bottom and a cremation on top in an acentric cist located in the mound. (see also Næss 1996[1968]: 151-152). Hove, Vik municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county The grave was located close to, but not covered by, a large mound with a diameter of 30 m (Shetelig 1917:15- 30; Kristoffersen 2000:354). The mound constitutes one of several large mounds situated up on a high terrace on the Hove farm. The grave construction consisted of a long flagstone cist (1.8 x 0.4-0.5 x 0.4 m) (fig. 2) which contained three burials. The bottom grave was a relatively well-equipped inhumation on a layer of birch bark, of, as indicated by the assemblage, a female (table 1) 2 . Over the western part of the bottom grave there was an approximately 5 cm thick gravel layer, while over the eastern part was a cremation (table 1). When the cremation was placed in the cist, the inhumation had been cleared somewhat off to the side. The assemblage and the deposit of 26 bear claws suggested that there were two or more individuals in the cremation, possibly, based on the composition of objects, male and a female. The top grave in the cist consisted of an inhumation, probably a male, according to the assemblage, and probably plundered (table 1). All three burials date back to the late Migration Period and the difference in time between them was short. 3 2 Shetelig considered it possible that there also was a child in the burial. His assumption is based on the occurrence of two knifes in the burial. 3 The conditions in the eastern part of the cist are, according to Shetelig, such that the unburned objects in the bottom and top graves cannot always be easily separated from one another. 130
Variation within the same mound Lydvo, Voss muncipality, Hordaland county The Sakrishaugen mound was situated by Lake Vangsvatnet on the farm Lydvo. Excavated in 1988, it was then a mound of 19 m in diameter and 4.5 m in height (fig. 3), however it was originally larger (Randers 1988). It contained two cairns, one large and centrally situated and one smaller with an acentric location. The central cairn was covered by three clearly separate layers of earth and is considered by the excavator to have been built in several stages. The small cairn was covered by one layer of earth. A long cist built of huge flagstones (5.5 x 1.3 x 1.5 m) was centrally situated in the large cairn. The cist contained an inhumation, probably plundered, with only a few objects left in situ (table 1). The presence of sherds from a bucket-shaped pot dates the grave to the late Migration Period. A spinning wheel most likely suggests a female, but this was not necessarily the only individual in the cist. An older cremation, interpreted as such based on stratigraphic evidence, was situated close to the cist. The typological relationship between the bucket-shaped pots in the two graves indicates that the difference in time is short. The grave consisted of an up to 10 cm thick coal layer with a diameter of 1.7 m. The fill contained burned bones and fragmented objects (table 2). The smaller cairn was on Figure 3. Ground plan from Sakrishaugen, Lydvo, Voss muncipality, Hordaland county. From Randers 1988, fig. 3a. 131
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The Materiality of Death Bodies, bu
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Contents Chapter 1. The Materiality
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Fig. 1. Pieter Bruegel, The Triumph
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dead are often regarded as unfriend
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The Materiality of Social Change: H
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The Materiality of Eternity - The A
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Chapter 2 More than Metaphor: Appro
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discuss death and the treatment of
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had to deal with. This is not to sa
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Chapter 3 A Piece of the Mesolithic
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A Piece of the Mesolithic: Skatehol
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question we need to construct some
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Fig. 4. Skateholm I (above) and Ska
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visible many years after the origin
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Phase Area Properties Interpretatio
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phase of one site with a contempora
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Fig. 2. Due to the extraordinaire c
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As with all cremations in Hinduism,
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Based on the amount of scattered bo
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To have an ethical approach involve
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Chapter 5 From Corpse to Ancestor:
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Page 113 and 114: The local context of the Norwegian
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Page 117 and 118: OESTIGAARD, T. 1999. Cremations as
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