TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nativ,Assaf
TI  - Prioritizing Death and Society: the Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant
T2  - Approaches to anthropological archaeology
SN  - 9781317544326
AV  - GT3273 .P756 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Cemeteries
KW  - Human remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company
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