Author: British School at RomePublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Papers of the British School at Rome
Author: British School at RomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina
Author: Carrie L. Sulosky WeaverPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813055547
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Choice Outstanding Academic Title Sicily was among one of the first areas settled during the Greek colonization movement, making its cemeteries a popular area of study for scholars of the classical world. Yet these studies have often considered human remains and burial customs separately. In this seminal work, Carrie Sulosky Weaver synthesizes skeletal, material, and ritual data to reconstruct the burial customs, demographic trends, state of health, and ancestry of Kamarina, a city-state in Sicily. Using evidence from 258 recovered graves from the Passo Marinaro necropolis, Sulosky Weaver suggests that Kamarineans--whose cultural practices were an amalgamation of both Greek and indigenous customs--were closely linked to their counterparts in neighboring Greek cities The orientations of the graves, positions of the bodies, and the types of items buried with the dead--including Greek pottery--demonstrate that Kamarineans were full participants in the mortuary traditions of Sicilian Greeks. Likewise, cranial traits resemble those found among other Sicilian Greeks. Interestingly, evidence of cranial surgery, magic, and necrophobic activities also appeared in Passo Marinaro graves--another example of how Greek culture influenced the city. An overabundance of young adult skeletal remains, combined with the presence of cranial trauma and a variety of pathological conditions, indicates the Kamarineans may have been exposed to one or more disruptive events, such as prolonged wars and epidemic outbreaks. Despite the tumultuous nature of the times, the resulting portrait reveals that Kamarina was a place where individuals of diverse ethnicities and ancestries were united in life and death by shared culture and funerary practices.
The Date of the Founding of Selinus and Its Implications for the Archeological Chronology of Corinthian Pottery
Author: David Terence CrowderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Dictionary Catalogue of the Byzantine Collection of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Dumbarton OaksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University
Author: Avery LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Early Black-figure Workshops of Athens and Corinth
Author: Ann Beatty HarrisonPublisher:
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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understanding of Corinthian pottery.
Hesperia
Author: Burials at Ialysos and Kameiros (Rhodes) in the Mid Archaic Period, Ca. 625-525 B.C.
Author: Charles Warner GatesPublisher:
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Category : Rhodes (Greece : Island)
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Author: