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"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE"--

Pastoral systems --- Migration, Internal --- Sedentary behavior --- Social archaeology --- Archaeology --- Pastoralisme --- Migrations intérieures --- Comportement sédentaire --- Archéologie sociale --- Archéologie --- History --- Methodology. --- Histoire --- Méthodologie --- To 1500 --- Iraq --- Middle East --- Irak --- Moyen-Orient --- Antiquities. --- Civilization --- Antiquités --- Civilisation --- Inactivity, Physical --- Physical inactivity --- Human behavior --- Herding systems --- Pastoralism --- Animal culture --- Livestock systems --- Herders --- Herding --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Methodology --- Nomads --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Sedentarization --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.

Social archaeology --- Sacrifice --- Rites and ceremonies --- Archéologie sociale --- Rites et cérémonies --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Antiquities. --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquités --- Vie religieuse --- Archaeology --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- History --- Methodology --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Antiquities --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- South West --- Asia

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This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.

Art, Middle Eastern. --- Art, Ancient --- Art, Ancient -- Middle East. --- Art, Modern. --- Art, Middle Eastern --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Middle Eastern art --- Ancient Near Eastern art. --- anthropology of art. --- archaeology. --- art history.