Empty tombs? The taphonomy of burials on Bahrain
作者:
JUDITH LITTLETON,
期刊:
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 1
页码: 5-14
ISSN:0905-7196
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1995.tb00074.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The number of empty tombs on Bahrain has been the focus of several analyses of Bronze Age burial practices on the island. Such analyses, however, have failed to take into account normal taphonomic processes affecting the recovery of bone. Once the factors determining the state of preservation have been accounted for, the frequency of empty tombs found on Bahrain is seen to be comparable to numerous other sites in the world. It is argued that mortuary analysis must take account of the intervening steps between burial in an ancient society and modern excavation of that burial, and that, in the case of Bahrain, elaborate explanations of the absence of human bone are unnecessary.
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