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Sacred Killing : The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient near East.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781575066769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred KillingDDC classification:
  • 203/.409394
LOC classification:
  • DS56 .S13 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- COVER Front -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Archaeology and Sacrifice -- Chapter 2: On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities: An Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India -- Chapter 3: Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük -- Chapter 4: On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe -- Chapter 5: On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe -- Chapter 6: Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified: Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur -- Chapter 7: Restoring Order: Death, Display, and Authority -- Chapter 8: Mortal Mirrors: Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia -- Chapter 9: Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History -- Chapter 10: Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion: The Uses of Ritual in a Multiethnic Community -- Chapter 11: Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East: Offering and Ritual Killing -- Chapter 12: On Sacrifice: An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice -- Index.
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Intro -- COVER Front -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Archaeology and Sacrifice -- Chapter 2: On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities: An Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India -- Chapter 3: Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük -- Chapter 4: On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe -- Chapter 5: On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe -- Chapter 6: Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified: Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur -- Chapter 7: Restoring Order: Death, Display, and Authority -- Chapter 8: Mortal Mirrors: Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia -- Chapter 9: Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History -- Chapter 10: Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion: The Uses of Ritual in a Multiethnic Community -- Chapter 11: Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East: Offering and Ritual Killing -- Chapter 12: On Sacrifice: An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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