Gebel, Hans Georg K.
Death inBa'ja: Sepulchral Identity and Symbolism in an Early Neolithic Community of the Transjordanian Highlands. Household and Death in Ba'ja 2
The publication Death in Baja presents for the first time a comprehensive account of the grave findings from the 9,000-year-old settlement of Baja in southern Jordan. It is the second volume of the final publication of the DFG Household and Death project. The unexpectedly lavishly decorated children graves shed new light on the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic period of the southern Levant. An empirical synthesis and archaeothanatological interpretation are provided before presenting the grave findings in detail, as well as eleven additional archaeological, analytical, and bioanthropological analyses and three contributions on the restoration of a unique necklace and on the reconstruction of the grave from which it came.
Pearls, Politics and Pistachios: Essays in Anthropology and Memories on the Occasion of Susan Pollock’s 65th Birthday
This book is a heartfelt “Thank You!” present to Susan Pollock on her 65th birthday. In each of the 46 contributions the 63 authors celebrate Susan Pollock as a multi-facetted and brilliant scholar and colleague, as a devoted and outstanding teacher and as an empathetic mentor. The range of topics covered in the articles spans from the first occurrence of Homo sapiens on the Iranian Highland, to the research of the underrepresentation of female scholars in a male dominated Publikationslandschaft, as well as the role of politics in archaeological practice. Together the authors present the diversity of archaeological practice neither limited by time and space, nor by methodical conventions.
