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Book Synopsis Sociocultural Implications of Central European Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices by : Susan Colcher Vehik
Download or read book Sociocultural Implications of Central European Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices written by Susan Colcher Vehik and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sociocultural Implications of Central European Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices by : Susan C. Vehik
Download or read book Sociocultural Implications of Central European Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices written by Susan C. Vehik and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age by : Anthony Harding
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age written by Anthony Harding and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an introduction and a discussion of chronology, successive chapters deal with settlement studies, burial analysis, hoards and hoarding, monumentality, rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, as well as a series of articles on specific technologies and crafts (such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing). The second half of the book covers each country in turn. From Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, and up to date information on important recent finds is discussed in detail. The book is the first to consider the whole of the European Bronze Age in both geographical and thematic terms, and will be the standard book on the subject for the foreseeable future.
Book Synopsis Mortuary Practice in Early Bronze Age Anatolia by : Bradley N. Bartel
Download or read book Mortuary Practice in Early Bronze Age Anatolia written by Bradley N. Bartel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe by : Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Download or read book Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe written by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains how change in burial practices take place by focussing on how new practices are processed by local communities.
Book Synopsis Burial Practices in Earley Bronze Age Anatolia by : Sharon Rose Steadman
Download or read book Burial Practices in Earley Bronze Age Anatolia written by Sharon Rose Steadman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland by : Cormac McSparron
Download or read book Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland written by Cormac McSparron and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure.
Book Synopsis Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory by : Michael B Schiffer
Download or read book Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory written by Michael B Schiffer and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 1 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book discusses the strategy for appraising significance, which is needed to maximize the preservation and wise use of cultural resources. Organized into 10 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of planning for the best long-term use of cultural resources, which is the essence of conservation archeology. This text then examines importance of the concept in cultural ecological studies. Other chapters consider the methods used in determining the density, size, and growth rate of human populations. This book discusses as well the use of demographic variables in archeological explanation. The final chapter deals with the decisions that must be made in designing a survey and to identify the alternative consequences for data recovery of various strategies. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists and planners.
Book Synopsis Regional Patterns and the Cultural Implications of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Burial Practices in Britain by : Nicole M. Roth
Download or read book Regional Patterns and the Cultural Implications of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Burial Practices in Britain written by Nicole M. Roth and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study investigates potential regional patterns of Iron Age burial practices and the cultural implications thereof. It is a literary-based assessment of 100 sites that date between the Late Bronze Age and the Late Iron Age, all containing human remains. The study illustrates a temporal relationship with the manner of disposal that is regionally distinct. It addresses other repeated Iron Age burial themes, such as differential treatment of infants, reuse of earlier monuments, bones marking liminal and economic spaces, and deposits adhering to a specific spatial pattern with buildings. It demonstrates that the processing of the corpse and the spatial context of the human remains deposit are central for understanding the community's perception of the bones and, thus, the meaning of the deposition. The core concept is that Iron Age communities practised various ritual processes, each with a different purpose, but using the same medium -- human remains."--Back cover (page 4 of cover).
Book Synopsis The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe by : Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Download or read book The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe written by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art. The human remains themselves provide information on biological parameters of life, such as sex, biological age, and health status. Objects associated with the body in the grave and funerary practices give further insights on how people of the early Iron Age understood life and death, themselves, and their place in the world. Representations of the human body appear in a variety of different materials, forms, and contexts, ranging from ceramic figurines to images on bronze buckets. Rather than focussing on their narrative content, human images are here interpreted as visualising and mediating identity. The analysis of how image elements were connected reveals networks of social relations that connect central Europe to the Mediterranean. Body ideals, nudity, sex and gender, aging, and many other aspects of women’s and men’s lives feature in this book. Archaeological evidence for marriage and motherhood, war, and everyday life is brought together to paint a vivid picture of the past.
Book Synopsis Neolithic Mortuary Practices in Greece by : Kent D. Fowler
Download or read book Neolithic Mortuary Practices in Greece written by Kent D. Fowler and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence for Neolithic graves and cemeteries in Greece is scant and not without its problems, although this study shows that the data can still be rendered meaningful.
Book Synopsis Children in the Early Bronze Age Mortuary Customs of the Levant by : Emilia M. Jastrzebska
Download or read book Children in the Early Bronze Age Mortuary Customs of the Levant written by Emilia M. Jastrzebska and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the obvious presence of children and infants in each and every society their role in the ancient societies was a long neglected topic in the archaeology all over the world and the Near East is no exception. The concept of childhood and infancy and the attitude towards the youngest members of human populations only became a subject of sociological and archaeological studies in the last quarter of the 20th century. Even after the attention has been drawn to the topic of children, they still hold a secondary place in the scholarly debate. Burial customs are one of the sources to study the social structure and the intra-societal relations existing in ancient societies. Due to the complexity of those social interactions as well as possible multiple interpretations of mortuary behavior, they are a delicate tool that can often lead to misconceptions and therefore using them as sources of information requires special caution. Nevertheless, material remains of the burial customs are currently the only available evidence to study the adult-infant relations of the pre- and early-historic societies. So far no comprehensive study of childhood in the early urban societies of the Near East has been conducted and it is the author's impression that children are often thought to be considered non-entities by the ancient inhabitants of the region. This con-cept seems to be rooted in the practice of burying infants under the floors of houses rather than placing them together with the deceased adults in the extramural cemeteries. The current study was aimed at refuting this notion and presenting other possible inter-pretations of the child-related mortuary behavior. The analysis of evidence available for the area of the Levant for the period be-tween 3600 and 2000 BCE has led to two main conclusions. First, that such practice was not a common or long lasting custom in this region and second, that the children-related mortuary customs lend themselves to several interpretations and the one assum-ing infants' inferiority in the ancient societies does not find much support in the exca-vated evidence. Due to limited scope of the study the focus was placed on the spatial differentiation between the adults and the children, rather then on other aspects of burial domain such as funerary gifts or specific post-mortem treatment of the body. Two different patterns of child-related burial practices has been exposed in the coastal part of the Levant and in northern Syria/south-eastern Anatolia. In neither of them evidence of treating children as non-entities was sufficient to support this concept. On the contrary, in both cases it seems that infants and children were in fact treated in very similar manners and sometimes the youngest were buried in more elaborate or 'wealthier' burials than the adults, thus disproving their suspected inferiority. In the area of the coastal Levant the differential treatment does appear at times. A strong correlation of this differentiation and the periods of urban development and decline that can be observed in Early Bronze Age Palestine, points towards a major role urbanization and overpopulation played in shaping of the mortuary traditions of the region. The same cannot be said about the Syro-Anatolian section of the Euphrates ba-sin, where an entirely different pattern can be seen. There it seem that children and in-fants were usually treated equally with the adults in terms of the grave location and often also the grave type. Therefore, the independence of mortuary behavior from the age of the deceased was suggested for that region, even though exceptions were of course found. As a result of the study, the concept of infants' inferiority was in fact refuted, but the problem of the role of children in the society was not solved as much as exposed in its full complexity. A number of aspects of the study has to be studied in greater de-tail, of which the most interesting is the exact age at death at which the mortuary treat-ment changes (in cases where id does change). Unfortunately the published data are not sufficient to facilitate this study at the moment. Funerary equipment and differences in types of graves also call for more attention in the future analysis. Lastly the wider con-textual analysis involving determination of sizes and characters of the settlements to which the burials are affiliated will surely throw new light on our understanding of the way urbanization affected the mortuary traditions.
Book Synopsis Mortuary Practices of the Hos by : Basanta Kumar Mohanta
Download or read book Mortuary Practices of the Hos written by Basanta Kumar Mohanta and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study conducted in two villages of Mayūrbhanj, India and Kolhan, India.
Book Synopsis Death and Changing Rituals by : J. Rasmus Brandt
Download or read book Death and Changing Rituals written by J. Rasmus Brandt and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals – how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.
Book Synopsis Transformation by Fire by : Ian Kuijt
Download or read book Transformation by Fire written by Ian Kuijt and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash, bone, and memories are all that remains after cremation. Yet for societies and communities, the act of cremation after death is highly symbolic, rich with complex meaning, touching on what it means to be human. In the process of transforming the dead, the family, the community, and society as a whole create and partake in cultural symbolism. Cremation is a key area of archaeological research, but its complexity has been underappreciated and undertheorized. Transformation by Fire offers a fresh assessment of archaeological research on this widespread social practice. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney’s volume examines cremation by documenting the material signatures of cremation events and processes, as well as its transformative impact on social relations and concepts of the body. Indeed, examining why and how people chose to cremate their dead serves as an important means of understanding how people in the past dealt with death, the body, and the social world. The contributors develop new perspectives on cremation as important mortuary practices and social transformations. Varying attitudes and beliefs on cremation and other forms of burial within the same cultural paradigm help us understand what constitutes the body and what occurs during its fiery transformation. In addition, they explore issues and interpretive perspectives in the archaeological study of cremation within and between different cultural contexts. The global and comparative perspectives on cremation render the book a unique contribution to the literature of anthropological and mortuary archaeology.
Book Synopsis Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus by : Priscilla Keswani
Download or read book Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus written by Priscilla Keswani and published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking investigation of burial practices and social transformations in the era when Cypriot agricultural communities moved from village to urban life and became major players in the eastern Mediterranean copper trade. The author develops an innovative theoretical and methodological approach that enables her to define and elucidate the shifting spatial relationships between tombs and habitation areas, the elaboration of rituals involving secondary treatment and collective burial, and changing patterns of mortuary expenditure and symbolism throughout the Bronze Age. Keswani proposes that during the Early-Middle Bronze periods, the growing elaboration of mortuary festivities and their crucial importance in negotiating status hierarchies contributed to the intensification of Cypriot copper production and the expansion of interregional exchange relations. Subsequent changes in mortuary practice suggest that the importance of collective burial rites and traditional modes of ritual display diminished over the course of the Late Bronze Age, as urban institutions multiplied and the bases of social prestige were transformed.
Book Synopsis Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East by : Benjamin W. Porter
Download or read book Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East written by Benjamin W. Porter and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East is among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies teams of researchers with different skillsets—osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact analysis—integrate mortuary analysis with bioarchaeological techniques. Drawing upon different kinds of data, including human remains, ceramics, jewelry, spatial analysis, and faunal remains found in burial sites from across the region’s societies, the authors paint a robust and complex picture of death in the ancient Near East. Demonstrating the still underexplored potential of bioarchaeological analysis in ancient societies, Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East serves as a model for using multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct commemoration practices. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, the archaeology of death and burial, bioarchaeology, and human skeletal biology.
