Burial And Ancient Society
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Burial And Ancient Society
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Author : Ian Morris
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987
Burial And Ancient Society written by Ian Morris and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Social Science categories.
This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeologists working with burial evidence, in whatever period. This book differs from many topical studies of state formation in that unique and particular developments are given as much weight as those factors which are common to all early states. The ancient literary evidence and the relevant historical and anthropological comparisons are extensively drawn on in an attempt to explain the transition to the city-state, a development which was to have decisive effects for the subsequent development of European society.
Society And Death In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Janet E. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-07
Society And Death In Ancient Egypt written by Janet E. Richards and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-07 with History categories.
Janet Richards considers social stratification in Middle Kingdom Egypt, exploring the assumption that a 'middle class' arose during this period. By focusing on the entire range of mortuary behavior, she shows how Middle Kingdom Egyptian practices and landscapes relating to death reveal information about the living society.
Death Ritual And Social Structure In Classical Antiquity
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Author : Ian Morris
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-10-22
Death Ritual And Social Structure In Classical Antiquity written by Ian Morris and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-22 with History categories.
In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social range than the surviving literary texts, which were mainly written for a small elite. They provide us with unique insights into how Greeks and Romans constituted and interpreted their own communities. In particular, burials enable the historian to study social change. Ian Morris illustrates the great potential of the material in these respects with examples drawn from societies as diverse in time, space and political context as archaic Rhodes, classical Athens, early imperial Rome and the last days of the western Roman empire.
Remembering The Dead In The Ancient Near East
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Author : Benjamin W. Porter
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2014-12-02
Remembering The Dead In The Ancient Near East written by Benjamin W. Porter and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Social Science categories.
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 window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies teams of researchers with different skillsets—osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact analysis—integrate mortuary analysis with bioarchaeological techniques. Drawing upon different kinds of data, including human remains, ceramics, jewelry, spatial analysis, and faunal remains found in burial sites from across the region’s societies, the authors paint a robust and complex picture of death in the ancient Near East. Demonstrating the still underexplored potential of bioarchaeological analysis in ancient societies, Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East serves as a model for using multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct commemoration practices. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, the archaeology of death and burial, bioarchaeology, and human skeletal biology.
Encyclopedia Of Society And Culture In The Ancient World
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Author : Peter I. Bogucki
language : en
Publisher: Facts on File
Release Date : 2008
Encyclopedia Of Society And Culture In The Ancient World written by Peter I. Bogucki and has been published by Facts on File this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Civilization, Ancient categories.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries, from adornment to crime and punishment, that provide information about culture and society in the ancient world and includes photographs and maps.
The Epigraphy Of Death
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Author : Oliver, Graham John Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Epigraphy Of Death written by Oliver, Graham John Oliver and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Tombstones provide the largest single category of epigraphical evidence from the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, and their inscriptions have been widely studied with reference to art and cultural history, ancient social history, prosopography and onomastics. But even though students of history and archaeology devote extensive attention to death and burial in antiquity, epigraphy - the study of inscriptions - remains, for many, an abstruse subject.
The Burial Of The Urban Poor In Italy In The Late Roman Republic And Early Empire
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Author : Emma-Jayne Graham
language : en
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Release Date : 2006
The Burial Of The Urban Poor In Italy In The Late Roman Republic And Early Empire written by Emma-Jayne Graham and has been published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
The horror of the puticuli, the mass burial pits, and their traditional association with the poor, has often led to this socio-economic group being viewed as somehow 'different' to the rest of the ancient urban community in the Italy of the Late Roman Republic. This is the theory questioned by the author of this volume. Why should this part of the community care so little about the disposal of the dead when other members of society were devoting huge amounts of time and money to ensuring that the deceased received not only burial, but also lasting commemoration? This volume emerged from the author's growing sense of unease at the way in which the urban poor of Rome seemed to be forgotten about, not only in discussions of burial practice, but also general societal trends. It stemmed from a wish to try to identify and re-humanise these often neglected people, as well as to use this information to more comprehensively assess the disposal practices of the ancient city dweller. The work goes some way to beginning this process. Much of the world of the ancient urban poor remains still to be explored, and, while not claiming to be comprehensive, the author hopes that it will re-insert the poor inhabitants of Rome into the consciousness of scholars of the ancient world, and contribute towards the development of new and exciting dialogues that take account of the attitudes and activities of all the varied members of ancient society.
The Archaeology Of Death In The Ancient Near East
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Author : Stuart Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 1995
The Archaeology Of Death In The Ancient Near East written by Stuart Campbell and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
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.
Performing Death
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Author : Nicola Laneri
language : en
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Release Date : 2007
Performing Death written by Nicola Laneri and has been published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
This volume represents a collection of contributions presented by the authors during the Second Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar "Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean," held at the Oriental Institute, February 17-18, 2006. The principal aim of the two-day seminar was to interpret the social relevance resulting from the enactment of funerary rituals within the broad-reaching Mediterranean basin from prehistoric periods to the Roman Age. Efforts were concentrated on creating a panel composed of scholars with diverse backgrounds - anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, art historians, and philologists - and the knowledge and expertise to enrich the discussion through the presentation of case-studies linked to both textual and archaeological evidence from the Mediterranean region. Fundamental to the successful realisation of this research process was the active dialogue between scholars of different backgrounds. These communicative exchanges provided the opportunity to integrate different approaches and interpretations concerning the role played by the performance of ancient funerary rituals within a given society and, as a result, helped in defining a coherent outcome towards the interpretation of ancient communities' behaviours.
Burial Society And Context In The Roman World
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Author : John Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2000
Burial Society And Context In The Roman World written by John Pearce and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary rituals; Burial and social status; The dead in the landscape; Burial and ethnicity and society; Religion and Burial in late Roman Britain and Italy.