Funeral Kit
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6th Century BCE
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afterlife
Afterlife Scenario
archaeological theory death
Artifactual Evidence
assemblages
Author_Jill L Baker
Bab Edh Dhra
burial analysis
Canopic Jars
Carinated Bowls
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Ceramic Vessels
chamber
comparative funerary research
cross-cultural mortuary patterns
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Funeral Kit
funerary
Funerary Banquet
Globular Bowls
goods
grave
Grave Architecture
Grave Assemblages
Grave Goods
Late Bronze Age II
LC
MB IIB
Middle Bronze Age
Middle Bronze IIA
mortuary archaeology
Mortuary Practices
Mortuary Setting
Mortuary Variability
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Plain Ware
scenario
southern Levant studies
Steel 2004a
Supine Extended Position
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Tomb Architecture
tombs
Product details
- ISBN 9781598746723
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Studies of mortuary archaeology tend to focus on difference—how the researcher can identify age, gender, status, and ethnicity from the contents of a burial. Jill L. Baker’s innovative approach begins from the opposite point: how can you recognize the commonalities of a culture from the “funeral kit” that occurs in all burials, irrespective of status differences? And what do those commonalities have to say about the world view and religious beliefs of that culture? Baker begins with the Middle and Late Bronze Age tombs in the southern Levant, then expands her scope in ever widening circles to create a general model of the funeral kit of use to archaeologists in a wide variety of cultures and settings. The volume will be of equal value to specialists in Near Eastern archaeology and those who study mortuary remains in ancient cultures worldwide.
Jill L. Baker earned a Ph.D. from Brown University and is an independent scholar of Near Eastern Archaeology, based in Miami, Florida. She has taught at the University of Miami, held fellowships at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, and has worked on several excavations including the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon and at Tel Zahara. Her research on Canaanite mortuary practices also appears in two articles published in the journal Levant .
