Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East

Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near EastRemembering 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

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