ISBN:
9781785703591 (hardback)
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiv, 360 pages :
,
illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ;
,
29 cm.
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Studies in funerary archaeology v. 10
Series Statement:
Studies in funerary archaeology ;
Keywords:
Human remains (Archaeology)
;
Excavations (Archaeology)
;
Death Social aspects To 1500.
;
History
;
Social archaeology
;
Turkey Antiquities.
;
Turkey History To 1453
Abstract:
"Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC-AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and death rates, pathology and nutrition, body actions, genetics, osteobiography, and mobility patterns and diet. The areas covered in Asia Minor include the sites of Hierapolis, Laodikeia, Aphrodisias, Tlos, Ephesos, Priene, Kyme, Pergamon, Amorion, Gordion, Bogazkale, and Arslantepe. The theoretical and methodological approaches used make it highly relevant for people working in other geographical areas and time periods. Many of the articles could be used as case studies in teaching at schools and universities. An important objective of the publication has been to see how the different types of results emerging from archaeological and natural science studies respectively could be integrated with each other and pose new questions on ancient societies, which were far more complex than historical and social studies of the past often manage to transmit"--Publisher description.
Note:
"The present publication is the result of an international conference held in Oslo and Fredrikstad, in Norway, Oct. 7-10, 2013, a conference which tried to sum up the results of three preceding annual workshops on Anatolian funerary archaeology in historical times, held in respectively Rome, Istanbul, and Lecce...."--Acknowledgements, page vii.
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