Victims of Violence: Healing Social Ills through Mesopotamian Mortuary Practice

Traces of violence found on human bones are very difficult to interpret. Determination of the cause of death is often based on circumstantial evidence drawn from the way the body is buried. But burials – and bodies – were sometimes manipulated in Mesopotamia for very different purposes. Here we exam...

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Main Author: Porter, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2015
In: Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2015, Volume: 78, Issue: 4, Pages: 252-262
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