Nativ, Assaf. <br/><br/>
Prioritizing Death and Society :  the Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant. 

 - London :  Routledge,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (316 pages). 
 - Approaches to anthropological archaeology .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781317544326 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death--Social aspects--History.--Middle East<br/>Funeral rites and ceremonies--Middle East.<br/>Cemeteries--Middle East.<br/>Human remains (Archaeology)--Middle East.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GT3273  / .P756 2014