Mortuary Ritual And Society In Bronze Age Cyprus

Author : Priscilla Keswani
Publisher : Equinox Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781904768036
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus written by Priscilla Keswani and published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking investigation of burial practices and social transformations in the era when Cypriot agricultural communities moved from village to urban life and became major players in the eastern Mediterranean copper trade. The author develops an innovative theoretical and methodological approach that enables her to define and elucidate the shifting spatial relationships between tombs and habitation areas, the elaboration of rituals involving secondary treatment and collective burial, and changing patterns of mortuary expenditure and symbolism throughout the Bronze Age. Keswani proposes that during the Early-Middle Bronze periods, the growing elaboration of mortuary festivities and their crucial importance in negotiating status hierarchies contributed to the intensification of Cypriot copper production and the expansion of interregional exchange relations. Subsequent changes in mortuary practice suggest that the importance of collective burial rites and traditional modes of ritual display diminished over the course of the Late Bronze Age, as urban institutions multiplied and the bases of social prestige were transformed.

Author : Priscilla Frances Schuster Keswani
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Total Pages : 1662 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Ritual and Social Hierarchy in Bronze Age Cyprus written by Priscilla Frances Schuster Keswani and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mortuary Ritual and Social Hierarchy in Bronze Age Cyprus written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Priscilla Frances Schuster Keswani
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 419 pages
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Download or read book Mortuary ritual and social hierarchy in Bronze Age Cyprus. 1 (1989) written by Priscilla Frances Schuster Keswani and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Branigan
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age written by Keith Branigan and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joanne M. A. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190926066
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Late Bronze Age Greece written by Joanne M. A. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level of variety and of similarity that we see in the practices at each site and thereby highlights the differences between communities that otherwise look very similar. By bringing together an international group of scholars working on tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese we are afforded a unique view of the development and diversity of these communities. The papers provide a penetrative analysis of the related issues by discussing tombs connected with sites ranging in size from palaces to towns to villages and in date from the start to the end of the Late Bronze Age. This book contextualizes the mortuary studies in recent debates on diversity at the main palatial and secondary sites and between the economic and political strategies and practices throughout Greece. The papers in the volume illustrate the pervasive connection between the mortuary sphere and society through the creation and expression of cultural narratives, and draw attention to the social tensions played out in the mortuary arena"--

Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169674
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus written by Philippa M. Steele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Author : Judith Weingarten
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275340
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl written by Judith Weingarten and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.

Author : Jill L Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315418444
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book The Funeral Kit written by Jill L Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill L. Baker’s innovative approach to mortuary archaeology begins by identifying commonalities of a culture from the “funeral kit” that occurs in all of its burials, using examples from the Ancient Near East and comparing it to other cultures.

Author : Diane Bolger
Publisher : American Society of Overseas Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Engendering Aphrodite written by Diane Bolger and published by American Society of Overseas Research. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of papers which focus on issues of gender and society in ancient Cyprus from the Neolithic to Roman periods.