Real and Ideal Identities in Middle Bronze Age Tombs
Are burials expressions of social reality or rather of a collective idealized social identity? Drawing on the evidence both from burials and from settlement archaeology, the author argues for the latter for the Middle Bronze Age Levant, demonstrating that tombs do not necessarily give an accurate pi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2002
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2002, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 105-111 |
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| Summary: | Are burials expressions of social reality or rather of a collective idealized social identity? Drawing on the evidence both from burials and from settlement archaeology, the author argues for the latter for the Middle Bronze Age Levant, demonstrating that tombs do not necessarily give an accurate picture of the lives of the people buried in them. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210871 |