Assaf Nativ

Prioritizing Death and Society (eBook, ePUB)

The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317544319
• Artikelnr.: 41502563

Autorenporträt

Assaf Nativ is a post-doctoral fellow in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, and is a staff member in the publication project of the Iron Age Fortress Mound at Tel Arad, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Binary oppositions
logical gaps and thick descriptions
Part II: Chalcolithic cemeteries
3. Chalcolithic cemeteries: winks
twitches and faked twitches
4. Isolated in the landscape: single-cave cemeteries
5. Multiple components: multiple-cave cemeteries
6. Dark
damp and deep: karstic-cave systems
7. Funerary structures
8. Exceptions
outliers and misfits
9. Structured deposition and depositional structures
Part III: Contemporary cemeteries
10. An archaeology of us
11. The raw materials: from matt to lustre
from grey to colour
12. Tombstone morphology: communal trajectories
13. Tombstone elaboration: personal expressions
14. Spatial patterns: between institutional policy and interpersonal spontaneity
15. Intersecting discourses
Part IV: Conclusion
16. Prioritizing death and society
17. Epilogue
Appendix: Gazetteers of cemeteries
Notes
Bibliography
Index