Morti inquieti e riti atipici: l'archeologia può documentare la paura?

Inflictions, prone burial positions, post-mortem mutilations, ligatures: the archaeology of funerary landscapes increasingly and accurately documents the material evidence of rituals and prophylactic treatments performed on the deceased. The aim of these treatments was perhaps to render the deceased harmless, prevent their 'return' and avert the risk of dangerous forms of contact between the living and the dead. Reflection on the post-mortem projections of the individual, or rather on social life after death (cf. Adriano Favole), is thus enriched by the contribution that contemporary archaeology of traces can provide, in a necessary and intense dialogue with written sources, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and the history of law and institutions.