{"id":53,"date":"2015-07-22T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-07-22T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:42:46","slug":"the-archaeology-of-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/2015\/07\/22\/the-archaeology-of-cremation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Archaeology of Cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s finally here! I\u2019ve been wanting to pull together a book on cremations since I was in the midst of my PhD. Back then, I got pipped to the post by a couple of new books so decided to leave it for a while. But it was probably for the best, because in the intervening years I\u2019ve learned a lot more about burned bone and publishing in general, and gained so many more colleagues. This has meant that the book is something that I\u2019m very proud of, and is a useful and interesting contribution to the field. Also, check out that awesome cover by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbosanko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bosanko<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2015\/07\/AoC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2015\/07\/AoC-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"AoC\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2015\/07\/AoC-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2015\/07\/AoC.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxbowbooks.com\/oxbow\/the-archaeology-of-cremation.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 chapters which discuss cremation contexts in archaeology<\/a>, and offers new interpretations of a range of really interesting settings. The book whizzes from the UK to Europe and over to South America &#8211; and spans periods from the Neolithic all the way up to the modern day. If you want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/stephanieanderson\/its-been-three-years-since-parks-recreations-treat-yo-self-e#.lqqjee8d5a\" target=\"_blank\">treat yo self<\/a>, you can buy a copy from those lovely people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxbowbooks.com\/oxbow\/the-archaeology-of-cremation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oxbow Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s finally here! I\u2019ve been wanting to pull together a book on cremations since I was in the midst of my PhD. Back then, I got pipped to the post by a couple of new books so decided to leave it for a while. But it was probably for the best, because in the intervening years I\u2019ve learned a lot more about burned bone and publishing in general, and gained so many more colleagues. This has meant that the book is something that I\u2019m very&#8230;<span class=\"clearfix clearfix-post\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/2015\/07\/22\/the-archaeology-of-cremation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Archaeology of Cremation&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ogem-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}