Deathways at Lepenski Vir. Patterns in mortuary practice. Excavations of Dragoslav Srejović

Lepenski Vir is one of the best known Mesolithic and Early Neolithic sites in Europe and the world. This book is the first volume of a comprehensive archaeological and anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from this site. Bringing various strands of mortuary evidence together for the first time the author provided a more complete picture of life and death at Lepenski Vir, including comparisons of the many contexts in which human remains have been found as well as details of biological characteristics of the people who created such distinctive material culture at the site. The book provides one of the best documented and analyzed contexts for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition anywhere. A combination of a detailed analysis of archaeological data, archaeothanatological analysis, science-based approaches to the skeletal material, and a social bioarchaeology perspective regarding the integration of different strands of data when providing wider interpretations, make this book an unique contribution to the current literature on many-sided consequences of the change from foraging to farming.