Death and the City: The Cemeteries of Amarna in Their Urban Context

Stevens, Anna

doi:10.1017/s0959774317000592

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“…In this case, it is more appropriate to use the definition 'delayed simultaneous multiple burials', as the time of death of individuals may not be exactly the same, and accordingly this may also affect the type of relation between the individuals. A similar scope can be drawn from work of Stevens (2017) for the suburban cemeteries of Amarna (especially for the North Tombs Cemetery), where the large number of multiple burials may tentatively suggest that bodies were being collected over the course of a few days and buried in the same grave.…”

Section: Gianluca Miniacimentioning

confidence: 83%

“…For instance, three individuals, one female adult and two children, were deposited, presumably as primary interments, in one of the graves of the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna (the main city during the reign of Akhenaton, 1349–1332 bc ); together with them was a fourth individual (female: Ind. 90), buried as a disarticulated assemblage of bones, ‘padded out with mud-brick, pottery and a roll of matting to restore its shape’ (Stevens 2017, 115, fig. 13).…”

Section: The Parameters Behind a Multiple Burial Assemblagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…90 was possibly relocated in the South Tombs Cemetery at the time when other family (?) members had died (Stevens 2017, 115).…”

Section: The Parameters Behind a Multiple Burial Assemblagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These graves are often cut only slightly wider than single interments, although sometimes longer than seems necessary. The bodies (mostly two, but up to at least five) are tightly packed, and sometimes wrapped together in the same burial mat, in layers on top of each other (Stevens 2017, 119). Except for one instance when sand layers have been recorded between the corpses, that may indicate consecutiveness in the deposition of the bodies, the general arrangement of these burials points towards a classification as primary simultaneous burials (type f.1 ).…”

Section: Renegotiation Of the Role Of The Body (And Funerary Equipmenmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multiple Burials in Ancient Societies: Theory and Methods from Egyptian Archaeology

Miniaci¹

2018

CAJ

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The paper aims at providing theoretical models and data interpretation applied to multiple burials. Challenging the current fuzzy definition of multiple burials in ancient societies, the paper proposes a more accurate classification of multiple burials, with particular reference to ancient Egypt funerary culture, based on two main parameters, which may have influenced the association of bodies: p1) architecture; p2) time span, and three flexible sub-parameters that may be used to customize different scenarios, on occasion: sp1) number of deceased; sp2) age of deceased; sp3) nature of death/deposition. The body has been often considered the real ontological centre of the burial itself with all of the other countable objects intended as radiating projections supporting the body-nucleus. The practice of multiple burials disrupts such a perception as it juxtaposes horizontal, multidirectional perspectives: the role of a new body entering among older bodies and objects, and of the multiple bodies and objects themselves. The study of multiple burials, if correctly framed, can lead to insights into different religious, social, and economic reasons behind the mortuary programmes within a society. For instance, sequential multiple burials reinforce the transformation of dead bodies into part of the burial equipment itself, reducing the centrality of the body and disrupting the narrative tied to individual biographies, increasing an ‘artefactual’ perception.

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Section: Gianluca Miniacimentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: The Parameters Behind a Multiple Burial Assemblagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…90 was possibly relocated in the South Tombs Cemetery at the time when other family (?) members had died (Stevens 2017, 115).…”

Section: The Parameters Behind a Multiple Burial Assemblagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Renegotiation Of the Role Of The Body (And Funerary Equipmenmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multiple Burials in Ancient Societies: Theory and Methods from Egyptian Archaeology

Miniaci¹

2018

CAJ

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“…2013; Dabbs et al . 2015; Stevens 2018). Although widespread looting has affected all four cemeteries, they still hold remarkable research potential for the study of the non-elite in ancient Egypt.…”

Section: Akhetaten and Its Cemeteriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From representation to reality: ancient Egyptian wax head cones from Amarna

Stevens

Rogge

Bos³

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Antiquity

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Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

Betsinger

DeWitte

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how bioarchaeology is well-suited to examine urbanization in the past, and we provide an overview and examples of three main ways in which urbanization is studied in bioarchaeological research: comparison of (often contemporaneous) urban and rural sites, synchronic studies of the variation that exists within and between urban sites, and investigations of changes that occur within urban sites over time. Studies of urbanization, both within bioarchaeology and in other fields of study, face a number of limitations, including a lack of a consensus regarding what urban and urbanization mean, the assumed dichotomous nature of urban versus rural settlements, the supposition that urbanization is universally bad for people, and the assumption (at least in practice) of homogeneity within urban and rural populations. Bioarchaeologists can address these limitations by utilizing a wide array of data and methods, and the studies described here collectively demonstrate the complex, nuanced, and highly variable effects of urbanization.

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Death and the City: The Cemeteries of Amarna in Their Urban Context

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Multiple Burials in Ancient Societies: Theory and Methods from Egyptian Archaeology

Multiple Burials in Ancient Societies: Theory and Methods from Egyptian Archaeology

From representation to reality: ancient Egyptian wax head cones from Amarna

Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

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