Kremering och begravning : Brandgravar från järnåldern i Järvafältet

This bachelor thesis examines osteological analyses on cremated bones and burial contexts in Sweden. It strives to investigate in more detail how the body has been used ritually and applied in such context and how cremated bones are buried in the ground. There has often been some form of transformation associated with cremation, both metaphorically and physically. The body goes from one state to another, which may have affected the various rites performed in correlation with cremation. In many cases, it was about preparing the dead for the next step and transition from death to the afterlife or whatever was thought to follow. To limit the scope, the focus will be on a specific period, namely the Iron Age. This is a theoretical thesis based on a literature study and thus no practical analyses of cremated bones were performed, but the work examines archaeological reports made about the subject area