Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa /

Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa / / ed. by David Stone, Lea Stirling.

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Cemetery and landscape studies have been hallmarks of North African archaeology for more than one hundred years. Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa is the first book to combine these two fields by considering North African cemeteries within the context of their wider landscapes. This unique perspec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Leone, Anna,
MacKinnon, Michael,
Mattingly, David J.,
Moore, Jennifer P.,
Stirling, Lea M.,
Stone, David L.,
Younes, Habib Ben,
HerausgeberIn:
Stirling, Lea ,
Stone, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2007
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Phoenix Presocractic Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • 1. Funerary Monuments and Mortuary Practices in the Landscapes of North Africa
  • 2. Interculturality and the Punic Funerary World
  • 3. Monuments on the Margins: Interpreting the First Millennium B.C.E. Rock-cut Tombs (Haouanet) of North Africa
  • 4. The 'Mausoleum Culture' of Africa Proconsularis
  • 5. The Koine of the Cupula in Roman North Africa and the Transition from Cremation to Inhumation
  • 6. The African Way of Death: Burial Rituals beyond the Roman Empire
  • 7. Changing Urban Landscapes: Burials in North African Cities from the Late Antique to Byzantine Periods
  • 8. Peopling the Mortuary Landscape of North Africa: An Overview of the Human Osteological Evidence
  • Index

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