This book explores the type and variety of burial practices within the Ancient Levant and challenges the assumptions of previous attempts to find a normative burial practice.
This book explores the type and variety of burial practices within the Ancient Levant and challenges the assumptions of previous attempts to find a normative burial practice.
Jennie Bradbury (Ph.D., F.S.A) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. Her research interests include burial traditions and mortuary practices; social complexity in ancient Western Asia; the role of 'non-optimal' zones; landscape archaeology, GIS and archaeological survey techniques; and cultural heritage.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant 2. Mortuary and Funerary Archaeology in the Levant and Western Asia 3. Burials and Society: The Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age Levant 4. Counting the Numbers: Individual, Collective and Simultaneous Burial 5. From Inhumation to Cremation 6. Biology and Society 7. Burial Positioning in the Archaeological Record 8. Equipping the Dead 9. Throwing away the concept of Normative? 10. Conclusion
1. Introduction. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant 2. Mortuary and Funerary Archaeology in the Levant and Western Asia 3. Burials and Society: The Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age Levant 4. Counting the Numbers: Individual, Collective and Simultaneous Burial 5. From Inhumation to Cremation 6. Biology and Society 7. Burial Positioning in the Archaeological Record 8. Equipping the Dead 9. Throwing away the concept of Normative? 10. Conclusion
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