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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University of Chicago Press
2015
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2015, Volume: 78, Issue: 4, Pages: 252-262 |
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