Gravers: What Bonds Old Bones: Journey through cemeteries, crypts, catacombs, churchyards and burial grounds of London (London Baby Book 13)

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Did you know that, seen from archaeological perspective, London soil is a layer cake with evidence dating as far as Neolithic era through to Bronze and Iron ages, Roman, Medieval, Post Medieval and Contemporary period?

Much can be learned of the social context and culture by how those populations treated and disposed of their dead, how beliefs and rituals shaped their practices and how material wealth affected their final home.