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Death and Burial in Arabia and Beyond: Multidisciplinary perspectives
Lloyd Weeks
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This volume represents the proceedings of the conference entitled 'Death, Burial and the Transition to the Afterlife in Arabia and Adjacent Regions' that was held at the British Museum from November 27th to 29th, 2008.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Society for Arabian Studies Monograph Series
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Table of Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgements
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Introduction to the Contributions on Burial Archaeology
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Remarks on Neolithic burial customs in south-east Arabia
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Ornamental objects as a source of information on Neolithic burial practices at al-Buhais 18, UAE and neighbouring sites
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On Neolithic funerary practices: were there “necrophobic” manipulations in 5th-4th millennium BC Arabia?
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The burials of the middle Holocene settlement of KHB-1 (Ra’s al-Khabbah, Sultanate of Oman)
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Results, limits and potential: burial practices and Early Bronze Age societies in the Oman Peninsula
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Life and death in an Early Bronze Age community from Hili, Al Ain, UAE
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Patterns of mortality in a Bronze Age tomb from Tell Abraq
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Discerning Health, Disease and Activity Patterns in a Bronze Age Population from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates
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Early Bronze Age graves and graveyards in the eastern Ja’alan (Sultanate of Oman): an assessment of the social rules working in the evolution of a funerary landscape
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An inventory of the objects in a collective burial at Dadna (Emirate of Fujairah)
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Collective Burials and Status Differentiation in Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia
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Camelid and equid burials in pre-Islamic southeastern Arabia
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The emergence of mound cemeteries in Early Dilmun: new evidence of a proto-cemetery and its genesis c. 2050-2000 BC
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Probing the Early Dilmun funerary landscape: a tentative analysis of grave goods from non-elite adult burials from City IIa-c
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The Bahrain bead project: introduction and illustration
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The burial mounds of the Middle Euphrates (2100-1800 B.C.) and their links with Arabia: the subtle dialectic between tribal and state practices
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Reuse of tombs or cultural continuity? The case of tower-tombs in Shabwa governorate (Yemen)
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A reverence for stone reflected in various Late Bronze Age interments at al-Midamman, a Red Sea coastal site in Yemen
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The Arabian Iron Age funerary stelae and the issue of cross-cultural contacts
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Sabaean stone and metal miniature grave goods
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Excavations of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen: A Minaean Necropolis at Barāqish (Wadi Jawf) and the Qatabanian Necropolis of Hayd bin Aqīl (Wadi Bayhān)
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Funerary monuments of southern Arabia: the Iron Age – early Islamic traditions
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Burial contexts at Tayma, NW Arabia: archaeological and anthropological data
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Feasting with the dead: funerary marzeah in Petra
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Biomolecular archaeology and analysis of artefacts found in Nabataean tombs in Petra
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The monolithic djin blocks at Petra: a funerary practice of pre-Islamic Arabia
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Colouring the Dead: New Investigations on the History and the Polychrome Appearance of the Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rostam, Fars
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Introduction to the Contributions on Arabia and the Wider Islamic World
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The intercessor status of the dead in Maliki Islam and in Mauritania
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Cairo’s City of the Dead: the cohabitation between the living and the dead from an anthropological perspective
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Observations on death, burial, graves and graveyards at various locations in Ra’s al-Khaimah Emirate, UAE, and Musandam wilayat, Oman, using local concerns
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Shrines in Dhofar
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Wādī Hadramawt as a landscape of death and burial
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Attitudes, themes and images: an introduction to death and burial as mirrored in early Arabic poetry
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Jewish burial customs in Yemen
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In anima vili: Islamic constructions on life autopsies and cannibalism
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Instituting the Palestinian Dead Body
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Papers read at the conference “Death, Burial, and the Transition to the Afterlife in Arabia and Adjacent Regions” held at the British Museum, London, on 27-29 November 2008.
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Published: 2010
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407336459 (ebook)
- 9781407306483 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2107