Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Chapter 18 How Did the Mycenaeans Remember? Death, Matter, and Memory in the Early Mycenaean World
- Chapter 19 Eternal Glory: The Origins of Eastern Jade Burial and Its Far-Reaching Influence
- Chapter 20 Eventful Deaths – Eventful Lives? Bronze Age Mortuary Practices in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes of Central Russia (2100–1500 BC)
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
Chapter 20 - Eventful Deaths – Eventful Lives? Bronze Age Mortuary Practices in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes of Central Russia (2100–1500 BC)
from Part V - Materiality and Memory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Chapter 18 How Did the Mycenaeans Remember? Death, Matter, and Memory in the Early Mycenaean World
- Chapter 19 Eternal Glory: The Origins of Eastern Jade Burial and Its Far-Reaching Influence
- Chapter 20 Eventful Deaths – Eventful Lives? Bronze Age Mortuary Practices in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes of Central Russia (2100–1500 BC)
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
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