Topic 2: A Brief History of Mortuary Archaeology

Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative. Routledge. (Chapter 2 only)

Giles, Melanie, and Howard Williams. 2016. “Introduction: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society.” In Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society, edited by Howard Williams and Melanie Giles. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753537.003.0007.

Ikram, Salima. 2018. “An Overview of the History of the Excavation and Treatment of Ancient Human Remains in Egypt.” In Archaeological Human Remains: Legacies of Imperialism, Communism and Colonialism, edited by Barra O’Donnabhain and Maria Cecilia Lozada. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89984-8_4.

Parker Pearson, Mike. 1999. The Archaeology of Death and Burial. A & M University Press. (Chapter 2 only)

Perry, Megan A. 2012. “Paleopathology in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.” In The Global History of Paleopathology. Pioneers and Prospects, edited by Jane E. Buikstra and Charlotte Roberts. Oxford University Press.

Stutz, Liv Nilsson, and Sarah Tarlow. 2013. “Beautiful Things and Bones of Desire: Emerging Issues in the Archaeology of Death and Burial.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial, edited by Liv Nilsson Stutz and Sarah Tarlow. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199569069.013.0001.