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Introduction : Bringing out the dead in the ancient Near East / Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin -- Burying things : practices of cultural disposal at late Neolithic Domuztepe, Southeast Turkey / Stuart Campbell, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Rachel Bichener, and Hannah Lau -- St…
This book presents 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 research…
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 win…
