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Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
J R(Ed)Et Al Brandt
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Description for Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
Hardback. Twenty papers combining archaeology and bioarchaeology to give a sophisticated picture of life and death in Asia Minor from ca. 200 BC - to AD 1300. Editor(s): Brandt, J. Rasmus; Hagelberg, Erika; Bjornstad, Gro; Ahrens, Sven. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3D; 3F; 3H; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 290 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1630.
Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and ... Read more
Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785703591
SKU
V9781785703591
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99-2
About J R(Ed)Et Al Brandt
J. Rasmus Brandt is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo. Erika Hagelberg is Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oslo. Gro Bjørnstad is Divisional Engineer at the Department of Forensic Biology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Sven Ahrens is a classical archaeologists and Senior Curator at the Norwegian Maritime Museum. ... Read more
Reviews for Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
These articles offer the possibility, especially to historians reliant on written sources, to have valuable data quantitative and objective information for better estimation of diet, living conditions, structure of families and the relationship to death of populations of Asia Minor during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in particular in the city of Hierapolis of Phrygia.
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