{"product_id":"life-and-death-in-asia-minor-in-hellenistic-roman-and-byzantine-times-studies-in-archaeology-and-bioarchaeology-9781785703591","title":"Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife and Death in Asia Minor\u003c\/em\u003e combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and death rates, pathology and nutrition, body actions, genetics, osteobiography, and mobility patterns and diet. The areas covered in Asia Minor include the sites of Hierapolis, Laodikeia, Aphrodisias, Tlos, Ephesos, Priene, Kyme, Pergamon, Amorion, Gordion, Boğazkale, and Arslantepe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe theoretical and methodological approaches used make it highly relevant for people working in other geographical areas and time periods. Many of the articles could be used as case studies in teaching at schools and universities. An important objective of the publication has been to see how the different types of results emerging from archaeological and natural science studies respectively could be integrated with each other and pose new questions on ancient societies, which were far more complex than historical and social studies of the past often manage to transmit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese articles offer the possibility, especially to historians reliant on written sources, to have valuable data quantitative and objective information for better estimation of diet, living conditions, structure of families and the relationship to death of populations of Asia Minor during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in particular in the city of Hierapolis of Phrygia. * Antiquité Tardive *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements          vii  Authors and Addresses         ix  Introduction. Dead bodies – Live data: Some reflections from the sideline     xiii  \u003cem\u003eJ. Rasmus Brandt\u003c\/em\u003e     \u003cstrong\u003ePART I: From life to death. Death and the social and funerary setting\u003c\/strong\u003e     \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe  Sanctuary of St Philip in Hierapolis and the tombs of saints in Anatolian cities      \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e  \u003cem\u003e            Francesco D’Andria\u003c\/em\u003e           2. Necropoleis from the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia: New data from archaeological surveys    \u003cem\u003eGiuseppe Scardozzi\u003c\/em\u003e           3. The South-East Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia: Planning, typologies and construction techniques    \u003cem\u003eDonatella Ronchetta\u003c\/em\u003e           4. Tomb 163d in the North Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia. An insight into the funerary gestures and practices of the Jewish Diaspora in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity and the Proto-Byzantine period    \u003cem\u003eCaroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frédérique Blaizot\u003c\/em\u003e       5. Tomb ownership in Lycia; site selection and burial\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003erights with selected rock tombs and epigraphical material from Tlos    \u003cem\u003eGül Işın and Ertan Yıldız\u003c\/em\u003e       6. The sarcophagus of Alexandros, son of Philippos. An important discovery in the Lycian city of Tlos    \u003cem\u003eTaner Korkut and Çilem Uygun\u003c\/em\u003e       7. ‘Till death do them part’: Reconstructing Graeco-Roman family life from funerary inscriptions of Aphrodisias    \u003cem\u003eEsen Öğüş\u003c\/em\u003e       8. Social status and tomb monuments in Hierapolis and Roman Asia Minor    \u003cem\u003eSven Ahrens\u003c\/em\u003e       9. New evidence for non-elite burial patterns in central Turkey    \u003cem\u003eAndrew L. Goldman\u003c\/em\u003e       10. Reflections on the mortuary landscape of Ephesus. The archaeology of death in a Roman Metropolis    \u003cem\u003eMartin Steskal\u003c\/em\u003e       11. Christian burials in a pagan context at Amorium    \u003cem\u003eChristopher S. Lightfoot\u003c\/em\u003e       12. Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia. A funerary journey of mental changes    \u003cem\u003eCamilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt\u003c\/em\u003e                  \u003cstrong\u003e      PART II: From death to life. Man and ancient life conditions\u003c\/strong\u003e             13. Analysis of DNA in human skeletal material from Hierapolis    \u003cem\u003eGro Bjørnstad and Erika Hagelberg\u003c\/em\u003e       14. Isotopic investigations of human diet and mobility at the site of Hierapolis, Turkey    \u003cem\u003eMegan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards\u003c\/em\u003e       15. Diet in Roman Pergamon using stable isotope (C, N, S), osteoarchaeological and historical data – preliminary results    \u003cem\u003eJohanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael Richards, Gisela Grupe, Gundula H. Müldner, and Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen\u003c\/em\u003e       16. Pergamon – Kyme – Priene: Health and disease from the Roman to the Late Byzantine period in different locations of Asia Minor    \u003cem\u003eWolf-Rüdiger Teegen\u003c\/em\u003e       17. Toothache, back pain, and fatal injuries – what skeletons tell about life and death at Roman and Byzantine Hierapolis    \u003cem\u003eHenrike Kiesewetter\u003c\/em\u003e       18. Health and disease of infants and children in Byzantine Anatolia between AD 600 and 1350    \u003cem\u003eMichael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz\u003c\/em\u003e           19. Infant and child skeletons from the Lower City Church at Byzantine Amorium    \u003cem\u003eF. Arzu Demirel\u003c\/em\u003e       20. The wrestler from Ephesus: Osteobiography of a man from the Roman period based on his anthropological and palaeopathological record    \u003cem\u003eJan Nováček, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz\u003c\/em\u003e         General Index     ","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535447556439,"sku":"9781785703591","price":61.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785703591.jpg?v=1755861580","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-and-death-in-asia-minor-in-hellenistic-roman-and-byzantine-times-studies-in-archaeology-and-bioarchaeology-9781785703591","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}