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Prioritizing Death and Society : The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

Online-Ressource (316 p)

Englisch

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; 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 cemeteries10 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

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Print version: Prioritizing Death and Society : The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant

978-1-84465-751-3

Online-Ausg.

978-1-317-54432-6 ( : 108.55 (NL))

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GT3273 .N38 2014

939.4     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Excavations (Archaeology) ; Middle East ; Human remains (Archaeology) ; Middle East ; Cemeteries ; Middle East ; Copper age ; Middle East ; Middle East ; Antiquities ; Electronic books

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