Karina Croucher

Death and Dying in the Neolithic Near East

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Croucher explores what mortuary practices can reveal about the living populations in the Neolithic Near East. Incorporating evidence from excavations, she provides an overview of the period and offers a unique insight into changing attitudes towards the human body, identity, and the experiences of the lived populations of the Neolithic Near East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199693955
• ISBN-10: 0199693951
• Artikelnr.: 34554117

Autorenporträt

Karina Croucher is currently completing a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology with the British Academy, based at Manchester University. Her research has focused on mortuary practices, human bodies, and identities during the prehistory of Southwest Asia anf the Near East.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Notes for reader
Preface and acknowledgements
1: Introduction: death and dying
2: The Neolithic Near East: an overview
3: Interpretation and practice
4: Plastered skulls, ancestors and the skull cult
5: Gender
6: Personhood, identity and the dead
7: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index