Landscapes of Death: Early Bronze Age Tombs and Mortuary Rituals on the Oman Peninsula

Kimberly D. Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2024
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80327-529-1 (ISBN)

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This book provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the evidence for Early Bronze Age mortuary rituals on the Oman Peninsula, describing the research conducted, synthesizing the resulting data, and presenting a complete view of the state of knowledge on the topic. The author demonstrates that the construction, use, and location of mortuary cairns in the ancient landscape is no simple question in the Early Bronze Age archaeology of the region. This book explores the characteristics of ancient funerary monuments and rituals, demonstrating variations in these practices, as well as evidence for continued cairn use during this period and how some communities elaborated mortuary rituals. This book will serve as an invaluable reference volume for scholars working in the region, as an introduction for students to mortuary archaeology and to models that can be used to explore this aspect of prehistoric life on the Oman Peninsula, and as a valuable repository of currently available data. The book features extensive demonstrative illustrations and appendices summarizing the architecture, interments, and material culture found in all published Early Bronze Age mortuary monuments in the region.

Kimberly D. Williams is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University, Philadelphia (USA). Dr. Williams received her PhD from The Ohio State University in 2005 and conducted postdoctoral research in genetic epidemiology at Wright State University. Her reseach span the fields of genetics, human biology, bioarchaeology, and mortuary archaeology. In 2015-2017 she joined the Sultan Qaboos University with a Fulbright award. Dr. Williams has been conducting research in the Sultanate of Oman since 2008, excavating funerary monuments in Dhofar, Al-Dhahirah and Al-Batinah.

List of figures, tables and spotlights

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Mortuary Ritual as a Reflection of Life

2. Mortuary Monuments: Cairns (3200–2700 BC)

3. Mortuary Monuments: Umm an-Nar Period Communal Tombs (2700–2000 BC)

4. Evidence of Transitions

5. Early Bronze Age Death Practices and Bioarchaeological Analyses (3200-2000 BC)

6. Future Research and Recommendations

Bibliography

Appendices

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Archaeological Heritage of Oman
Zusatzinfo	109 figures, 11 tables, 20 spotlights (colour throughout)
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 297 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
ISBN-10	1-80327-529-4 / 1803275294
ISBN-13	978-1-80327-529-1 / 9781803275291
Zustand	Neuware