Memory and its demolition: ancestors, animals and sacrifice at Umm el-Marra, Syria

GM Schwartz - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2013 - cambridge.org
At Umm el-Marra in western Syria, a sequence of Bronze Age ritual installations facilitates
the investigation of how Syrian elites employed memory, ancestor veneration, and animal …

The role of metal procurement in the wide interregional connections of Arslantepe during the late 4th–early 3rd millennia BC

M Frangipane - Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology, 2017 - brill.com
This paper discusses the role played by metal procurement and distribution in the intense
relationships established between mobile, pastoral communities of the northern and north …

Embodiments of death: the funerary sequence and commemoration in the bronze age Levant

MS Cradic - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article presents an archaeological model for Levantine funerary rituals performed in the
context of commingling inhumations. Using the case study of a masonry-constructed …

[图书][B] Defining the Sacred

N Laneri - 2015 - books.google.com
Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of
emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of any …

A systematic comparison of material culture between household floors and residential burials in late third-millennium BCE Mesopotamia

Y Nishimura - American Journal of Archaeology, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
A systematic comparison between funerary and house-floor artifacts at the site of Titriş
Höyük in southeastern Turkey demonstrates that an overall sense of domesticity and routine …

[HTML][HTML] Mobility and connection among the Early Bronze Age Syrian elite

C Stantis, GS Compton, A Kharobi, N Maaranen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The archaeological site of Umm el-Marra (in the Jabbul plain, western Syria), is a large,
fortified urban center. Excavations have uncovered ten tomb structures built during the Early …

[图书][B] Testing the canon of ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology

A Gansell, A Shafer - 2020 - books.google.com
Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology invites readers to
reconsider the contents and agendas of the art historical and world-culture canons by …

Animal Burials at Gonur Depe

RM Sataev - The World of the Oxus Civilization, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Some 62 “animal burials” containing whole skeletons were discovered at Gonur Depe. They
concern all kinds of animals. Such rituals were an integral part of the spiritual culture of the …

Ceramics, society and economy in the northern Levant

G Philip, K Badreshany - Levant, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
One of the primary aims of the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE),
funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is to create a …

La succession

M Hammad - Semiotica, 2017 - degruyter.com
Résumé En sémiotique, la cession commerciale est un transfert symétrique d'objets équi-
valents, mais la transmission successorale, qui est une forme majeure de circulation des …