Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East Maria Womack

Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East Maria WomackRemembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East is among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies, teams of researchers with different skillsetsosteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the

This volume undertakes to contextualize male youths’ circumstances and to learn about their lives

and makes them available in English for the first time

rapidly creating a new elite via marriage with women from local notable families

and the search for meaning in this world/

The authors have compressed the diaries into a highly readable narrative with selected quotations

Themes that figure prominently in recent literature on seventeenth-century philosophy and science-the birth of the mind as "mirror of nature

whereby the weaker actor attempts to subject the stronger state to limiting "rules of the game

and warm pedagogy

To determine "the archaeology of difference" the studies in this volume draw on textual and material culture

political-economic impediments to peace

This chapter addresses different aspects of manure-based anaerobic digestion (AD)

decompression sickness