The volume includes papers with individual contributions by the authors dealing with taphonomic
processes as well as post-funeral practices and reuse of graves which could be determined. It
is shown that besides the state of preservation the methods of investigation are enormously
important in order to be able to recognize for example multiple burials. Likewise the
phenomenon of a closed context as is quickly assumed in the discovery of a grave is not a
matter of fact in the case of the examples presented. The scientific analyses and evaluations
help to understand both the biological and the cultural processes that occur or are carried out
after the death of an individual.
