The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Manchester Conference, 16th-20th December 1992 (Oxbow Monographs)

The conference in Manchester in 1992 which this book came out of was organized to raise the profile of the study of mortuary remains in the Ancient Near East. Thirty papers from the conference are published here, covering a wide variety of regions and periods, from Epipalaeolithic to modern. Many different aspects are examined: physical anthropology, burial goods, social structure, ethoarchaeology, etc. This volume has a wide relevance not only to the areas specifically addressed, but also in the interpretation of burial remains and the evolution of society. Dani Nadel, The Visibility Of Prehistoric Burials In The Southern Levant. How Rare Are The Upper Palaeolithic/early Epipalaeolithic Graves? -- Anna Belfer-cohen, Rethinking Social Stratification In The Natufian Culture: The Evidence From Burials -- Brian Boyd, Houses And Hearths, Pits And Burials: Natufian Mortuary Practices At Mallaha (eynan), Upper Jordan Valley -- Avi Gopher And Estelle Orrelle, New Data On Burials From The Pottery Neolithic Period (sixth-fifth Millennium Bc) In Israel -- Stuart Campbell, Death For The Living In The Late Neolithic In North Mesopotamia -- Sally Swain, The Use Of Model Objects As Predynastic Egyptian Grave Goods An Ancient Origin For A Dynastic Tradition -- Joyce M. Filer, Attitudes To Death With Reference To Cats In Ancient Egypt -- Francis Thornton, Change In Oral Pathology Through Time Of Nile Valley Populations Predynastic To Roman Theya Molleson And Stuart Campbell, Deformed Skulls At Tell Arpachiyah; The Social Context -- Dorothy A. Lunt, Lemba-lakkous And Kissonerga-mosphilia: Evidence From The Dentition In Chalcolithic -- Lynn Bright, Approaches To The Archaeological Study Of Death With Particular Reference To Ancient Cyprus -- Kay Prag, The Dead Sea Dolmens: Death And The Landscape -- Evi Baxevani, The Complex Nomads: Death And Social Stratification In Ebiv Southern Levant -- Elizabeth Carter And Andrea Parker, Pots, People And The Archaeology Of Death In Northern Syria And Southern Anatolia In The Latter Half Of The Third Millennium Bc -- David İlan, Mortuary Practices At Tel Dan In The Middle Bronze Age: A Reflection Of Canaanite Society And Ideology -- Graham Philip, Warrior Burials In The Ancient Near-eastern Bronze Age: The Evidence From Mesopotamia, Western Iran And Syria-palestine Garth Gilmour, Aegean Influence In Late Bronze Age Funerary Practices In The Southern Levant -- Jean-françois Salles, Rituel Mortuaire Et Rituel Social à Ras Shamra/ougarit -- Walter Y. Loebl, A Case Of Symmers' Fibrosis Of The Liver During The 18th Dynasty? -- John F. Healey, Death In West Semitic Texts: Ugarit And Nabataea -- Charles Penglase, Some Concepts Of Afterlife In Mesopotamia And Greece -- Abdulaziz Soweileh A Typology Of Dilmun Burial Mounds -- Louise Steel, Differential Burial Practices In Cyprus At The Beginning Of The Iron Age -- Charles Burney, Urartian Funerary Customs -- Heather Baker, Neo-babylonian Burials Revisited -- Antony G. Keen, The Tombs Of Lycia Evidence For Social Stratification? -- John Curtis, Gold Face-masks In The Ancient Near East -- Joe Zias, Cannabis Sativa (hashish) As An Effective Medication In Antiquity: The Anthropological Evidence -- Madeleine Sarley, Deathly Links Between China And Islam? Relief-moulded Lead-glazed Pottery -- St John Simpson, Death And Burial In The Late Islamic Near East: Some Insights From Archaeology And Ethnography Edited By Stuart Campbell & Anthony Green. Papers Presented At An International Residential Conference Held Dec. 16-19, 1992, On The Fallowfield Campus Of The Victoria University Of Manchester. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 253-297). Chiefly English; One Paper In French. The conference in Manchester in 1992 which this book came out of was organised to raise the profile of the study of mortuary remains in the Ancient Near East. Thirty papers from the conference are published here, covering a wide variety of regions and periods, from Epipalaeolithic to modern. Many different aspects are examined: physical anthropology, burial goods, social structure, ethoarchaeology, etc. This volume has a wide relevance not only to the areas specifically addressed, but also in the interpretation of burial remains and the evolution of society.