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Title Death rituals, social order and the archaeology of immortality in the ancient world : "death shall have no dominion" / edited by Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Boyd, Iain Morley.
Publisher New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2016.


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Description xxiii, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
ISBN 9781107082731 hardback
1107082730 hardback
9781107443143 paperback
1107443148 paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. 'The unanswered question' : investigating early conceptualisations of death / Colin Renfrew -- Part I. Intimations of mortality. 2. Non-human animal responses towards the dead and death : a comparative approach to understanding the evolution of human mortuary practices / Alexander K. Piel and Fiona A. Stewart ; 3. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic mortuary behaviours and the origins of ritual burial / João Zilhão ; 4. Upper Palaeolithic mortuary practices : reflection of ethnic affiliation, social complexity and cultural turnover / Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren -- Part II. Mortality and the foundations of human society : sedentism and the collective. 5. Gathering of the dead? : the early Neolithic sanctuaries of Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey / Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich and Klaus Schmidt ; 6. Death and architecture : the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A burials at WF16, Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan / Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Darko Maričević, Sam Smith, Emma Jenkins and Mohammad Najjar ; 7. Corporealities of death in the central Andes (ca. 9000-2000 BC) / Peter Kaulicke ; 8. Mediating the dominion of death in prehistoric Malta / Simon Stoddart ; 9. House societies and founding ancestors in early Neolithic Britain / Julian Thomas -- Part III. Constructing the ancestors. 10. Constructing ancestors in sub-Saharan Africa / Timothy Insoll ; 11. Different kinds of dead : presencing Andean expired beings / George F. Lau ; 12. Putting death in its place : the idea of the cemetery / Anthony Snodgrass ; 13. Becoming Mycenaean? : the living, the dead and the ancestors in the transformation of society in second millennium BC southern Greece / Michael J. Boyd -- Part IV. Death, hierarchy and the social order. 14. Life and death in late prehistoric to early historic Mesopotamia / Karina Croucher ; 15. The big sleep : early Maya mortuary ritual / Norman Hammond ; 16. De-paradoxisation of paradoxes by referring to death as an ultimate paradox : the case of the state-formation phase of Japan / Koji Mizoguchi ; 17. Death and mortuary rituals in mainland Southeast Asia : from hunter-gatherers to the god kings of Angkor / Charles F.W. Higham -- Part V. Materiality and memory. 18. How did the Mycenaeans remember? : death, matter and memory in the early Mycenaean world / Lambros Malafouris ; 19. Eternal glory : the origins of eastern jade burial and its far-reaching influence / Li Shuicheng ; 20. Eventful deaths -- eventful lives? : Bronze Age mortuary practices in the late prehistoric Eurasian steppes of central Russia (2100-1500 BC) / Bryan Hanks, Roger Doonan, Derek Pitman, Elena Kupriyanova and Dmitri Zdanovich -- Part VI. Intimations of immortality : glimpsing other worlds. 21. Northern Iroquoian deathways and the re-imagination of community / John L. Creese ; 22. Locating a sense of immortality in early Egyptian cemeteries / Alice Stevenson ; 23. Buddhist and non-Buddhist mortuary traditions in ancient India : stūpas, relics, and the archaeological landscape / Julia Shaw ; 24. Killing mummies : on Inka epistemology and imperial power / Terence N. D'Altroy -- Part VII. Responses and reactions : concluding thoughts. 25. 'Death shall have no dominion' : a response / Timothy Jenkins ; 26. Comments: Death shall have no dominion / Paul K. Wason ; 27. The muse of archaeology / Ben Okri.
Library Class Anthrop X765
Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
Death -- Social aspects.
Other Author Renfrew, Colin, 1937- editor.
Boyd, Michael J., 1970- editor.
Morley, Iain, 1975- editor.

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