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Prioritizing death and society : the archaeology of Chalcolithic and contemporary cemeteries in the Southern Levant / Assaf Nativ.
Penn Museum Library GT3273 .N38 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nativ, Assaf.
- Series:
- Approaches to anthropological archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects--Middle East--History.
- Death.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Middle East.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Cemeteries--Middle East.
- Cemeteries.
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Middle East.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Death--Social aspects.
- History.
- Middle East--Antiquities.
- Middle East.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2014.
- Contents:
- Part I: Introduction
- Binary oppositions, logical gaps and thick descriptions
- Part II: Chalcolithic cemeteries: winks, twitches, and faked twitches
- Isolated in the landscape: single-cave cemeteries
- Multiple components: multiple-cave cemeteries
- Dark, damp, and deep: karstic-cave systems
- Funerary structures
- Exceptions, outliers and misfits
- Structured deposition and depositional structures
- Part III: Contemporary cemeteries: an archaeology of us
- The raw materials: from matt to lustre, from grey to colour
- Tombstone morphology: communal trajectories
- Tombstone elaboration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-298) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781844657513
- 1844657515
- OCLC:
- 858353891
- Publisher Number:
- 99956804410
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