Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration

This volume is based on papers submitted to the session "Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration" organized for the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, held at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, September 5-11, 2005. The intent of the volume is to bring together and make available to a wider audience a body of information on skull collection, modification and decoration that spans the Early Neolithic to the twentieth century. The papers are grouped by geographic region - Europe, Middle East, Eurasia, Oceania, New World: 1) Inside Kurtz's Compound: headhunting and the human body in Prehistoric Europe (Ian Armit); 2) Complexity and context: plain, painted and modeled skulls from the Neolithic Middle East (Michelle Bonogofsky); 3) Getting ahead: exploring meanings of skulls in the Neolithic Near East (Karina Croucher); 4) Plastered skulls of the catacomb culture in the northern Pontic Region (Elke Kaiser); 5) Decoration of skulls: funerary rituals of the Yamnaya and Catacomb Cultures in the Eurasian Bronze Age (Natalia I. Shishlina); 6) The Yenisei Mummies with modeled skulls and masks from Siberia (Elga B. Vadetskaia); 7) The taphonomy of cranial modification in Papua New Guinea: implications for the archaeology of mortuary ritual (Ann L. W. Stodder); 8) Moche skulls in cross-cultural perspective (Erica Hill); 9) "Trophy" heads in Prehistoric Peru: Wari Imperial influence on Nasca head-taking practices (Corina M. Kellner); 10) Skulls collected for scalping in the Gran Chaco (Marcela Mendoza); 11 Postmortem skeletal modifications of the Pre-Columbian North American Mid-Continent (C. Scott Speal).Bonogofsky, Michelle is the author of 'Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781841719719 and ISBN 1841719714.