The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange

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Foreword
Eileen Murphy

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

Chapter 1. Bodies Among Fragments: Non-Normative Inhumations among the Preclassic and Classic Period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin
Jessica I. Cerezo-Román

Chapter 2. Interpreting a Multiple Burial in an Early Ancestral Pueblo Village
Ann L.W. Stodder

Chapter 3. 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

Chapter 4. The Odd Man Out in a Pioneer Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California
Patricia M. Lambert

Chapter 5. 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

Chapter 6. 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

Chapter 7. 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
Wiesław Więckowski, Miłosz Giersz, Roberto Pimentel Nita

Chapter 8. Friend or Foe? Investigating a Mass Burial at the Templo de la Piedra Segrada at Túcume, Peru
Barbara R. Hewitt

Chapter 9. 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

Chapter 10. Burial in a Kiln: Transgression and Punishment in Late Antiquity
Anastasia Tsaliki

Chapter 11. Variation Beyond the Grave: Contextualizing Unusual Burials in Early Medieval Bohemia
Lauren Hosek

Chapter 12. Good and Bad Death in Early Medieval Times? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Non-Normative Burials in Finland in the Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries AD
Ulla Moilanen

Chapter 13. Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Poland: A Critical Overview
Leszek Gardeła

Chapter 14. Does Health Define Deviancy? Non-Normative Burials in Post-Medieval Poland
Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott

Chapter 15. The “Vampires” of Lesvos: Detecting and Interpreting Anti-Revenant Ritual in Greece
Sandra Garvie-Lok, Anastasia Tsaliki

Chapter 16. Natural Mummification as a Non-Normative Mortuary Custom of Modern Period Sicily (1600–1800)
Dario Piombino-Mascali, Kenneth C. Nystrom, Betsinger, et al.

Chapter 17. 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

Chapter 18. Deviant Treatment of the Body as a Mortuary Ritual: A Case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan
Takeshi Ishikawa

Chapter 19. Ancestors, Conflict, and Criminality in Ancient China and Mongolia
Christine Lee

Chapter 20. Dependent Deviance: Castration and Deviant Burial
Kathryn Reusch

Afterword

Andrew Reynolds

Contributors