Life and death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times : studies in archaeology and bioarchaeology /
"Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC-AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations f...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2016.
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| Series: | Studies in funerary archaeology ;
v. 10. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
Table of Contents:
- The sanctuary of St Philip in Hierapolis and the tombs of saints in Anatolian cities / Francesco D'Andria
- Necropoleis from the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia: new data from archaeological surveys / Giuseppe Scardozzi
- The South-East Necropolis of Hierapolis in Phrygia: planning, typologies, and construction techniques / Donatella Ronchetta
- Tomb 163d in the North Necropolis of Hierapolis in Phrygia: an insight into the funerary gestures and practices of the Jewish Disapora in Asia Minor in late Antiquity and the proto-Byzantine period / Caroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frédérique Blaizot
- Tomb ownership in Lycia: site selection and burial rights with selected rock tombs and epigraphic material from Tlos / Gül Işin and Ertan Yildiz
- The sarcophagus of Alexandros, son of Philippos: an important discovery in the Lycian city of Tlos / Taner Korkut and Çilem Uygun
- 'Til death do them part': reconstructing Graeco-Roman family life from funerary incriptions of Aphrodisias / Esen Öğüş
- Social status and tomb monuments in Hierapolis and Roman Asia Minor / Sven Ahrens
- New evidence for non-elite burial patterns in central Turkey / Andrew L. Goldman
- Reflections on the mortuary landscape of Ephesus: the archaeology of death in a Roman metropolis / Martin Steskal
- Christian burials in a pagan context at Amorium / Christopher S. Lightfoot
- Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia: changes in funerary practices and mental processes / Camilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt
- Analysis of DNA in human skeletal material from Hierapolis / Gro Bjørnstad and Erika Hagelberg
- Isotopic investigations of human diet and mobility at the site of Hierapolis, Turkey / Megan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards
- Diet in Roman Pergamon: preliminary results using stable isotope (C, N, S), osteoarchaeological and historical data / Johanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael P. Richards, Gisela Grupe, Gundula H. Müldner, and Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen
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- Priene: health and disease from the Roman to the late Byzantine period in different locations of Asia Minor / Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen
- Toothache, back pain, and fatal injuries: what skeletons reveal about life and death at Roman and Byzantine Hierapolis / Henrike Kiesewetter
- Health and disease of infants and children in Byzantine Anatolia between AD 600 and 1350 / Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz
- Infant and child skeletons from the Lower City Church at Byzantine Amorium / F. Arzu Demirel
- The wrestler from Ephesus: osteobiography of a man from the Roman period based on his anthropological and palaeopathological record / Jan Nováček, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz.