Edited by Jessica Cerezo-Román, College Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard University, Anna Wessman, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, and Howard Williams, Professor of Archaeology, University of Chester

Jessica Cerezo-Román is a College Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. She also wroks as a bioarchaeologist consultant for the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro INAH Sonora, Mexico. She completed her PhD at The University of Arizona in 2014.

Anna Wessman is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and archaeologist and educator at the Espoo City Museum. Her PhD, entitled Death, Destruction and Commemoration which traced ritual activities in Finnish Late Iron Age cemeteries (AD 550-1150), was completed at the University of Helsinki in 2010.

Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester. His research interests focus on medieval, post-medieval and contemporary mortuary archaeology, archaeologies of memory, and the history of archaeology. Howard has published over 80 book chapters and journal articles as well as edited books, including most recently Archaeologists and the Dead (OUP, 2016). He is author of the monograph Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain (CUP, 2006).

Jessica Cerezo-Román, Harvard University
Gabriel Cooney, School of Archaeology University College Dublin
Koen Deforce, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Lynne Goldstein, Michigan State University
Amy Gray Jones, University of Chester
Lise Harvig, University of Copenhagen
Denis Henrotay, Direction Générale Operationnelle, De L'amenagement Du Territoire
Wim Van Neer, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Ruth Nugent, University of Chester
Jarkko Saipio, University of Helsinki
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, OREA Abteilung Europa ,Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie
Anna Röst, Stockholm University
Kirsty Squires, Staffordshire University
Douglas H. Uberlaker, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute
Anna Wessman, University of Helsinki
Howard Williams, University of Chester

"In conclusion, this volume considerably advances our understanding of ancient cremation and the past peoples who practiced it" - Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver, University of Pittsburgh , The Classical Journal

"Cremation and the Archaeology of Death is as much about archaeological methods as cultural history...the volume brings together 13 case studies to explore issues such as fire technology, the use of pyre-goods, and the transformational power of burning the dead. On the evidence of this book, the study of cremation should accordingly occupy a much more prominent place in our study of past societies." - Stuart Brookes, Current World Archaeology