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Routledge The Funeral Kit: Mortuary Practices in Archaeological Record

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The Funeral Kit offers an innovative perspective on mortuary archaeology by examining the commonalities within burial practices rather than focusing solely on differences in status and wealth. Jill L. Baker's groundbreaking approach investigates how the consistent elements present across all burials reveal fundamental insights into a culture's worldview and religious beliefs. Beginning with Middle and Late Bronze Age tombs in the southern Levant, Baker systematically expands her analytical framework across wider geographic and temporal scopes. This book challenges conventional mortuary archaeology methodology by arguing that understanding universal burial patterns provides more meaningful cultural interpretation than traditional approaches centred on identifying individual variation. The research demonstrates how funeral kits the standardised objects and practices accompanying the dead function as windows into shared cultural values and spiritual frameworks that transcended social hierarchies. Published by Routledge, this work provides scholars and students of archaeology, ancient history, and anthropology with both theoretical innovation and practical analytical methods for interpreting burial assemblages.

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The Funeral Kit examines Middle and Late Bronze Age tombs in the southern Levant as primary evidence for developing innovative archaeological interpretation methods.

Baker's framework prioritises identifying cultural commonalities across burials irrespective of status differences, offering fresh analytical perspectives on mortuary archaeology.

This Routledge publication combines theoretical innovation with practical methodology, making it valuable for both academic research and classroom instruction in archaeology.

The work expands systematically from specific regional examples to broader comparative frameworks, demonstrating how funeral practices reveal religious beliefs and worldviews.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1598746715
Category: Books > Subjects > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mythology > Antiquities
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 January 2012
Listed Since: 20 May 2011

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