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Prioritizing Death and Society : the Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to anthropological archaeologyPublication details: London : Routledge, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317544326
  • 1317544323
  • 9781315728902
  • 1315728907
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 939.4 23
LOC classification:
  • GT3273 .N38 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; 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 cemeteries10 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.
Summary: First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; 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 cemeteries10 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.

First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-298) and index.

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