1st Edition
Prioritizing Death and Society The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant
By Assaf Nativ
Copyright 2014
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Death, grief and funerary practices are central to any analysis of social, anthropological, artistic and religious worlds. However, cemeteries - the key conceptual and physical site for death - have rarely been the focus of archaeological research. 'Prioritizing Death and Society' examines the structure, organisation and significance of cemeteries in the Southern Levant, one of the key areas for... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, Acknowledgements, Part I: Introduction, 1. Introduction, 2. Binary oppositions, logical gaps and thick descriptions, Part II: Chalcolithic cemeteries, 3. Chalcolithic cemeteries: winks, twitches and faked twitches, 4. Isolated in the landscape: single-cave cemeteries, 5. Multiple components: multiple-cave cemeteries, 6. Dark, damp and deep: karstic-cave systems, 7. Funerary structures, 8. Exceptions, outliers and misfits, 9. Structured deposition and depositional structures, Part III: Contemporary cemeteries, 10. An archaeology of us, 11. The raw materials: from matt to lustre, from grey to colour, 12. Tombstone morphology: communal trajectories, 13. Tombstone elaboration: personal expressions, 14. Spatial patterns: between institutional policy and interpersonal spontaneity, 15. Intersecting discourses, Part IV: Conclusion, 16. Prioritizing death and society, 17. Epilogue, Appendix: Gazetteers of cemeteries, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Assaf Nativ is a post-doctoral fellow in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, and is a staff member in the publication project of the Iron Age Fortress Mound at Tel Arad, Israel.
