The human body in early Iron Age Central Europe : burial practices and images of the Hallstatt world / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical Framework -- The Iron Age Setting -- Funerary Practices and the Body -- The Representation of the Body : Images and Imagined Worlds -- The Image and the Object -- The Hallstatt Body in Life and Death -- Motif networks -- Conclusion -- List of sites included in the analysis.

"Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art"--Provided by publisher.