Mortuary landscapes of North Africa / edited by David L. Stone and Lea M. Stirling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, David L. (David Leonard), 1968- editor.

Stirling, Lea Margaret, editor.

Series:

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; Volume 43.

Phoenix. Supplementary Volume ; Volume 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sepulchral monuments--Africa, North.

Tombs--Africa, North.

Burial--Africa, North.

North Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Cemetery and landscape studies have been hallmarks of North African archaeology for more than one hundred years. Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa is the first book to combine these two fields by considering North African cemeteries within the context of their wider landscapes. This unique perspective allows for new interpretations of notions of identity, community, imperial influence, and sacred space. Based on a wealth of material research from current fieldwork, this collection of essays investigates how North African funerary monuments acted as regional boundaries, markers of identity and status, and barometers of cultural change. The essays cover a broad range in terms of space and time - from southern Libya to eastern Algeria, and from the seventh century BCE to the seventh century CE. A comprehensive introduction explains the importance of the 'landscape perspective' that these studies bring to North African funerary monuments, while individual case-studies address such topics as the African way of death among the Garamantes, the ritual reasons for the location of certain Early Christian tombs, Punic burials, Roman cupula tombs, and the effects of rapid state formation and imperial incorporation on tomb builders. Unique in both scope and perspective, this volume will prove invaluable to a cross-section of archaeological scholars.

Contents:

Funerary monuments and mortuary practices in the landscapes of North Africa / David L. Stone and Lea M. Stirling

Interculturality and the Punic funerary world / Habib Ben Younes

Monuments on the margins : interpreting the first millenium B.C.E. rock-cut tombs (haouanet) of North Africa / David L. Stone

The "mausoleum culture" of Africa Proconsularis / Jennifer P. Moore

The koine of the cupula in Roman North Africa and the transition from cremation to inhumation / Lea M. Stirling

The African way of death : burial rituals beyond the Roman Empire / David J. Mattingly

Changing urban landscapes : burials in North African cities from the Late Antique to Byzantine periods / Anna Leone

Peopling the mortuary landscape of North Africa : an overview of the human osteological evidence / Michael MacKinnon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5941-6

1-4426-2814-6

OCLC:

903421432