book chapter
Disposal of the dead
Village on the Euphrates: from foraging to farming at Abu Hureyra, byA.M.T. Moore, G.C. Hillman, A.J. Legge ; with contributions by J. Huxtable ... [et al • London • Published In 2000 • Pages: 277-299
By: Moore, A. M. T. (Andrew Michael Tangye), Molleson, Theya Ivitsky.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Moore and Molleson describe the burials and human remains found at Abu Hureyra 1 and 2 and the Historic period. Only the data pertaining to Abu Hureyra 2 were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. They discuss who, what, where, and how the people of the settlement were buried. Some of their findings include: there were few infants or perinatal burials, women were buried within their houses, men were more often buried elsewhere, probably outside the village, the location of the burials within the houses was remembered, most of the burial rites stayed the same throughout the occupation of Abu Hureyra, burial goods were usually beads, but also flint and bone tools were found, most bodies were exposed to allow the flesh to decay before the final burial, and they probably had a cult of the ancestors. Burials at other sites within the Levant are compared to Abu Hureyra.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mourning
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mortality
- Gender roles and issues
- Cult of the dead
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aceramic Neolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971 reconnaissance, 1972-1973 field work
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Abu Hureyra 2; circa 9,400 BP-7,000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Abu Hureyra, Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. M. T. Moore and T. I. Molleson
- For bibliographical references see document 14:Moore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98002893
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Syria/Excavations (Archaeology)--Syria/Abu Hureyra, Tall (Syria)/Syria--Antiquities