Week 8

Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative. Routledge. (Chapter 7)

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.