Death and burial in Arabia and beyond : multidisciplinary perspectives
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Death and burial in Arabia and beyond : multidisciplinary perspectives
(BAR international series, 2107)(Society for Arabian Studies monographs, no. 10)
Archaeopress, 2010
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These papers, from a 2008 conference at the British Museum, explore cultural traditions related to death and burial across the Arabian Peninsula from prehistory to modern times. Major themes include: specific local and regional burial traditions of ancient Arabia and adjacent regions; implications of burial data for aspects of contemporaneous living societies; beliefs surrounding death and the transition to the afterlife; landscapes of death and burial; burial and pilgrimage; recent and contemporary ideas and practices relating to death and burial.
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