How to Cite

Benz, Marion et al. (Eds.): Death inBa’ja: Sepulchral Identity and Symbolism in an Early Neolithic Community of the Transjordanian Highlands. Household and Death in Ba’ja 2, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1224

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ISBN 978-3-96929-230-3 (PDF)

Published

05/17/2023

Authors

Marion Benz (Ed.), Julia Gresky (Ed.), Christoph Purschwitz (Ed.), Hans Georg K. Gebel (Ed.)

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.

 

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Table of Contents
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PDF
Front Matter
Table of Contents
i-ix
List of Figures
x-xviii
List of Tables
xix-xxii
Marion Benz
xxiii-xxiv
1-72
Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Christoph Purschwitz, Hala Alarashi, Michael Schultz, Hans Georg K. Gebel
the Burial Contexts
73-199
Julia Gresky
Morphological and Palaeopathological Investigations
201-260
Eirini Skourtanioti, Michal Feldman
273-290
Corina Knipper, Julia Gresky, Marion Benz
Results of Strontium Isotope Analysis of Human Teeth
291-308
Scott D. Haddow
309-323
Hans Georg K. Gebel
Colour-Coded Territories
341-370
Hans Georg K. Gebel
The Rituality of the Ba`ja Daggers
371-391
Hala Alarashi
Investigations on Raw-Materials, Production, and Use-Wear
405-436
Hala Alarashi
Study and Reconstruction of a Complex Ornament Found in the Child Burial CG7
475-513
Alice N.T. Costes, Andrea Fischer
Conservation and Restoration of an Exceptional Find
515-525
Hussein M. al-Sababha, Mousa Serbil
Consolidation and Reconstruction
527-532

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