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Remembering the dead in the ancient Near East : recent contributions from bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology
- Title
- Remembering the dead in the ancient Near East : recent contributions from bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology / [edited by] Benjamin W. Porter & Alexis T. Boutin.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2014.
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- Description
- xv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book presents the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies, teams of researchers with different skillsets--osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact analysis--integrate mortuary analysis with bioarchaeological techniques. Drawing upon different kinds of data, including human remains, ceramics, jewelry, spatial analysis, and faunal remains found in burial sites from across the region's societies, the authors paint a robust and complex picture of death in the ancient Near East.--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Human remains (Archaeology) > Middle East > Methodology
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Middle East
- Human skeleton > Analysis
- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Human remains (Archaeology) > Methodology
- Ausgrabung
- Bestattungsritus
- Grabbeigabe
- Knochenfund
- Middle East > Antiquities
- Middle East
- Alter Orient
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Bringing out the dead in the ancient Near East / Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin -- Burying things : practices of cultural disposal at late Neolithic Domuztepe, Southeast Turkey / Stuart Campbell, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Rachel Bichener, and Hannah Lau -- Strange people and exotic things : constructing Akkadian identity at Kish, Iraq / William J. Pestle, Christina Torres-Rouff, and Blair Daverman -- Commemorating disability in early Dilmun : ancient and contemporary tales from the Peter B. Cornwall Collection / Alexis T. Boutin and Benjamin W. Porter -- Bioarchaeological reconstruction of group identity at early Bronze Age Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan / Susan Guise Sheridan, Jaime Ulliner, Lesley Gregoricka, and Meredith S. Chesson -- Identity, commemoration, and remembrance in colonial encounters : burials at Tombos during the Egyptian New Kingdom Nubian empire and its aftermath / Stuart Tyson Smith and Michele R. Buzon -- Abandoned memories : a cemetery of forgotten souls? / Gretchen R. Dabbs and Melissa Zabecki.
- ISBN
- 9781607323242
- 1607323249
- 9781607323259
- 1607323257
- LCCN
- 2014001151
- 40024316262
- OCLC
- ocn879119395
- 879119395
- SCSB-14457254
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library