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Mortuary landscapes of North Africa /

Cemetery and landscape studies have been hallmarks of North African archaeology for more than one hundred years. Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa is the first book to combine these two fields by considering North African cemeteries within the context of their wider landscapes. This unique perspec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stirling, Lea Margaret (Editor ), Stone, David L. (David Leonard), 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
Colección:Phoenix. Supplementary volume (Toronto, Ont.) ; 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Funerary monuments and mortuary practices in the landscapes of North Africa / David L. Stone and Lea M. Stirling
  • Interculturality and the Punic funerary world / Habib Ben Younes
  • Monuments on the margins : interpreting the first millenium B.C.E. rock-cut tombs (haouanet) of North Africa / David L. Stone
  • The "mausoleum culture" of Africa Proconsularis / Jennifer P. Moore
  • The koine of the cupula in Roman North Africa and the transition from cremation to inhumation / Lea M. Stirling
  • The African way of death : burial rituals beyond the Roman Empire / David J. Mattingly
  • Changing urban landscapes : burials in North African cities from the Late Antique to Byzantine periods / Anna Leone
  • Peopling the mortuary landscape of North Africa : an overview of the human osteological evidence / Michael MacKinnon.