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Mortuary and bioarchaeological perspectives in Bronze Age Arabia / Kimberly D. Williams and Lesley A. Gregoricka ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past. Local, regional, and global perspectives.
- Florida scholarship online.
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past. Local, regional, and global perspectives
- Florida scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burial--Arabian Peninsula--History--To 1500.
- Burial.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Arabian Peninsula--History--To 1500.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Bronze age--Arabian Peninsula.
- Bronze age.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Arabian Peninsula.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Arabian Peninsula--History.
- Arabian Peninsula.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This edited volume brings together experts in archaeology and bioarchaeology to examine continuity and change in ancient Arabian mortuary practices. While most previous investigations have been limited geographically to Egypt and the Levant, this volume focuses on the lesser-studied southeastern Arabian Peninsula.
- Contents:
- Series foreword
- A path forward to an integrated study of bioarchaeology in southeast Arabia / By Kimberly D. Williams and Lesley A. Gregoricka
- Mortuary transitions
- Promoting group identity and equality by merging the dead: increasing complexity in mortuary practices from late neolithic to early bronze age in the Oman Peninsula and its social implications / By Olivia Munoz
- Burial archaeology in Qatar: landscapes, chronology and typological change from the neolithic to the late pre-Islamic / By Richard Cuttler and Aurea Izquierdo Zamora
- The Hafit/Umm an-Nar transition of the third millennium BC: evidence from the architecture and mortuary ritual at al khubayb necropolis / By Kimberly D. Williams and Lesley A. Gregoricka
- Tombs in time and towers in space: making sense of the Hafit/Umm an-Nar transition in North-Central Oman through its monuments / By Charlotte Cable
- Exploring continuity and discontinuity from the early to the middle bronze age in central Oman: the graveyards of Adam / By Guillaume Gernez and Jessica Giraud
- A trait-based analysis of structural evolution in prehistoric monumental burials of eastern Arabia / By Eugenio Bortolini
- Evidence from the bones
- Animals and the changing landscape of death on the Oman Peninsula, third millennium BC / By Jill Weber, Kimberly D. Williams, and Lesley A. Gregoricka
- The tomb at Tell Abraq (c. 2100-2000 BCE): demographic structure and mortuary complexity / By Debra Martin, Kathryn Baustian, and Anna Osterholtz
- Temporal trends in mobility and subsistence economy among the tomb builders of Umm an-Nar Island / By Lesley A. Gregoricka
- The Elders of Dilmun: a bioarchaeological analysis of age and masculinity from the Peter B. Cornwall Collection / By Alexis Boutin and Benjamin Porter
- Conclusions, challenges, and the future of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology in Arabia / By Peter Magee.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-68340-106-9
- 1-68340-093-3
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