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The funeral kit : mortuary practices in the archaeological record

By Baker , Jill L

Book information

Publisher
Left Coast Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1598746715, 978-1-59874-671-6, 978-1-59874-673-0, 1598746731
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1898271 bytes)
Pages
229\231
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Studies of mortuary archaeology tend to focus on difference—how the researcher can identify age, gender, status, and ethnicity from the contents of a burial. Jill L. Baker’s innovative approach begins from the opposite point: how can you recognize the commonalities of a culture from the “funeral kit” that occurs in all burials, irrespective of status differences? And what do those commonalities have to say about the world view and religious beliefs of that culture? Baker begins with the Middle and Late Bronze Age tombs in the southern Levant, then expands her scope in ever widening circles to create a general model of the funeral kit of use to archaeologists in a wide variety of cultures and settings. The volume will be of equal value to specialists in Near Eastern archaeology and those who study mortuary remains in ancient cultures worldwide.

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