Embodiments of Death: The Funerary Sequence and Commemoration in the Bronze Age Levant

This article presents an archaeological model for Levantine funerary rituals performed in the context of commingling inhumations. Using the case study of a masonry-constructed chamber tomb from Middle Bronze Age Tel Megiddo (Israel), the funerary sequence is reconstructed in three main phases: (1) p...

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Published in:Bulletin of ASOR
Main Author: Cradic, Melissa S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press 2017
In: Bulletin of ASOR
RelBib Classification:HB Old Testament
HH Archaeology
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Commemoration
B Memorials
B burial taphonomy
B ancestor veneration
B deathways
B Embodiment
B Tel Megiddo
B Tombs
B MORTUARY RITUAL
B archaeology of the Levant
B Funerals
B Death
B Bronze Age
B Personhood
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