Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative
Author:   Jennie Bradbury
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032894973


Pages:   426
Publication Date:   28 March 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative


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Author:   Jennie Bradbury
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.990kg
ISBN:  

9781032894973


ISBN 10:   1032894970
Pages:   426
Publication Date:   28 March 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant; 2. Mortuary and Funerary Archaeology in the Levant and Western Asia; 3. Burials and Society: The Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age Levant; 4. Counting the Numbers: Individual, Collective and Simultaneous Burial; 5. From Inhumation to Cremation; 6. Biology and Society; 7. Burial Positioning in the Archaeological Record; 8. Equipping the Dead; 9. Throwing away the concept of Normative?; 10. Conclusion

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Jennie Bradbury (Ph.D., F.S.A) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. Her research interests include burial traditions and mortuary practices; social complexity in ancient Western Asia; the role of ‘non-optimal’ zones; landscape archaeology, GIS and archaeological survey techniques; and cultural heritage.

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