ISBN:
0-521-38738-8
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978-0-521-38738-5
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0-521-32680-X
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0-521-32680-X
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 262 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First paperback edition
Series Statement:
New Studies in Archaeology
Series Statement:
ACLS History E-Book Project Reprint Series
Keywords:
Griechenland, klassisch Bestattung
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Bestattungsform
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Grab
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Tod
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Ritual und Zeremonie
Abstract:
This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeologists working with burial evidence, in whatever period. This book differs from many topical studies of state formation in that unique and particular developments are given as much weight as those factors which are common to all early states. The ancient literary evidence and the relevant historical and anthropological comparisons are extensively drawn on in an attempt to explain the transition to the city-state, a development which was to have decisive effects for the subsequent development of European society.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the argument; Part I: 2. The living and the dead; 3. The social dimensions of early Greek burial; Part II: 4. Demography and space; 5. The burying groups; 6. Exclusion and retrieval; 7. Mortuary and display; 9. Pottery and population; Part III: 10. The rise of the polis; 11. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Site index; General index.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234 - 255
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Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Faculty of Classics, 1986 unter dem Titel "Burial and society at Athens, 1100-500 B.C."
