Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber

Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber

Cemeteries

Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber

Christoph Bachhuber [+-]
University of Oxford
Christoph Bachhuber is Associate Faculty Member in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. He received his doctorate from St. John’s College, University of Oxford in 2008, and has since held research and teaching positions at the British Institute at Ankara, the University of Oxford, and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

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Chapter 4 addresses the relationship between the living and the dead through two dominant interpretive concerns: (1) secondary interment activities and related ideologies, and (2) the consumption of wealth. The human remains of the dead were a significant presence and focus for veneration in these communities. Mortuary ritual united the living members of a village with the people of the past who had dwelt in the same village. Interaction with the dead reinforced social relationships within and between households and enforced a community’s historical claim to a landscape that had been farmed by people of their past. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the cemetery of Alacahöyük. The so-called ‘royal tombs’ represent a monumental expression of this ideology, but also a profound break or divergence from the social logic and ideology of villages.

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Bachhuber, Christoph . Cemeteries. Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13). Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 83-106 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781845536480. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24591. Date accessed: 09 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.24591. Jan 2016

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