Topic 5: Manipulating the dead

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Cradic, Melissa S. 2021. “Materializing the Ancestors: Sacred Body Parts and Fragments in the Ancient Near East.” In The Sacred Body, edited by Nicola Laneri, vol. 1. Materializing the Divine through Human Remains in Antiquity. Oxbow Books. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13nb8wc.9.

Chesson, Meredith, S. 2023. “Early Bronze Age IA Mortuary Practices and Difference on the South-Eastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan.” Levant 55 (1): 61–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2022.2151265.

Kletter, Raz, and Yosi Levy. 2015. “And Death Shall Do Us No Part: Simultaneous Burials in Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant.” Ägypten Und Levante/Egypt and the Levant 25: 275–94.

Mickelburgh, Hayley L. 2018. “Actualistic Experimental Taphonomy of Inhumation Burial.” In Multidisciplinary Approaches to Forensic Archaeology. Topics Discussed during the European Meetings on Forensic Archaeology (EMFA), edited by Pier Matteo Barone and W. J. Mike Groen. Soil Forensics. Springer.

Mui, Sian. 2019. “Grave Expectations: Burial Posture in Popular and Museum Representations.” In The Public Archaeology of Death, edited by Howard Williams, Benedict Wills-Eve, and Jennifer Osborne. Equinox.

Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative. Routledge. (Chapter 5)

Amir, Ayala, Yuval Gadot, Jordan Weitzel, et al. 2021. “Heated Beeswax Usage in Mortuary Practices: The Case of Ḥorvat Tevet (Jezreel Valley, Israel) ca. 1000 BCE.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36: 102904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102904.

Felli, Candida. 2017. “Protracted Burial Practices and Cremation in the Ancient Near East: Two Independent Phenomena?” In Engaging with the Dead: Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body, edited by Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre. Oxbow Books.

Grzegorska, Aleksandra. 2020. “Cremation in Southern Levant and Lebanon: Review of Literature.” Bioarchaeology of the Near East 14: 61–92.

Kreppner, Florian Janoscha. 2014. “The New Primary Cremation Custom of Iron Age Tell Sheikh Hamad/Dūr-Katlimmu (North-Eastern Syria).” In Contextualising Grave Inventories in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of a Workshop at the London 7th ICAANE in April 2010 and an International Symposium in Tübingen in November 2010, Both Organised by the Tübingen Post-Graduate School “Symbols of the Dead,” edited by Peter Pfälzner, Herbert Niehr, Ernst Pernicka, Sarah Lange, and Tina Köster. Harrassowitz Verlag.

Quinn, Colin P., Lynne Goldstein, Gabriel Cooney, and Ian Kuijt. 2014. “Perspectives—Complexities of Terminologies and Intellectual Frameworks in Cremation Studies.” In Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context, edited by Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney. Amerind Studies in Anthropology. The University of Arizona Press.