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The edge of the city: urban growth and burial space in 4th millennium BC Mesopotamia

其他書名	Published in Origini n. XXXV/2013. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma \| Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
出版	Gangemi Editore, 2017-03-20T00:00:00+01:00
主題	Social Science / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN	88492478939788849247893
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=b2luDgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In the 4th millennium BC, Mesopotamia witnessed the world’s first urban settlements and associated economic and political complexities. However, the burial practices of this period are poorly known, leaving a gap in our reconstruction of the social implications of this important transition. The funerary traditions of the preceding and succeeding 5th and 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia are well-known, but there does not appear to be a continuum of practice across the intervening millennium. This paper explores the current state of knowledge of burial practices in 4th millennium BC Mesopotamia, including an under-examined adult-infant dichotomy. Based on recently-excavated data from Tell Brak in northeast Syria, we propose a model of site-edge burial during the urban transition in northern Mesopotamia.